Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code

Christopher Reimer christopher_reimer at icloud.com
Fri Jan 15 17:09:18 EST 2016


> On Jan 15, 2016, at 10:09 AM, 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?

"Startup" by Jerry Kaplan was about an early PDA in the late 1980's that got reviewed and later copied by Microsoft. Great book about Silicon Valley product development  

Chris R.


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