Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code

Alister alister.ware at ntlworld.com
Fri Jan 15 13:46:20 EST 2016


On 15/01/16 18:09, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:02 PM, William Ray Wing <wrw at mac.com> wrote:
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>> What Micro$oft was actually sued for was worse.  They would approach a small company: “We like your product/technology, we think we are interested in buying you out, but we want to see your code to be sure it is modular/well-documented/etc.”  Then, after looking over the code: “Well, it actually doesn’t fit our plans.  Sorry.”  Six months or so later, essentially identical stuff would turn up in a Micro$soft product.
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> More out of curiosity than anything else, do you have a source?
>
Doublespace disk compression springs to mind



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