On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:28:08 -0700, jcarlyle wrote:

I'm pretty sure this is a religious question as regards M$!

Not particularly. Its more driven by curiosity about why their driver
interface specification isn't stable between OS versions. Judging by the
difficulty they had in coming up with API documentation to meet the
European court case and the poor quality of what was published, its
possible thew API wasn't documented and all their code design has been
done by word of mouth and uncommented header files.

Larry's answer
was that they didn't care enough about the customer to write a decent
driver. Since that violated his business sense, he quit selling their
product...

That fits with the impression I've got of the man. We need more like him,
especially in the finance industry.


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