Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code

[William Ray Wing]

> On Jan 15, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Bernardo Sulzbach
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It came out of a Cringely column several years ago, I don’t remember the date.  What I do remember (and failed to add to my note before) was that Micro$soft counted on the mismatch in legal department sizes to pretty much prevent any one small company from suing (or bankrupted them if they tried).  It was typically a footnote in the press stories about the government suit and another bullet point in the unfair competition/tactics alleged.

Bill