[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

Brian Wiese bwiese at cotse.com
Sun May 9 13:44:06 UTC 2004


On Thu, 6 May 2004 22:52:43 -0500
Sean Kelly <smkelly at zombie.org> wrote:


|Microsoft can't really do what many opensource things do and just say "We
|no longer support doing X using the Y API." They would drive developers
|away quick.

they did actually do just that for a few hardware pieces when WinXP was
released.  one reason I know, is winxp doesn't support any parallel-port
scanners.

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