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Re: MS undocumentation ..

  • Subject: Re: MS undocumentation ..
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:35:36 +0000
  • In-reply-to: <14491202.DBpiLBCeWz@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 01 March 2007 07:26 \__
> 
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Doug Mentohl spake thusly:
>>> 'That DirectUI is a Windows API is shown by the presence of formal
>>> internal documentation in the form of web pages, marked ?Internal Only?'
>>>
>>> 'Microsoft?s source code also uses the term ?undocumented API,? e.g.
>>> folder.c (SHGetSpecialFolderPath) and drawicon.'
>>>
>>> 'A number of Microsoft ex-employees and certified developers have
>>> referred to much of Microsoft?s formal documentation as ?undocumentation?'
>>>
>>> http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/Supp_Rpt_Andrew_Schulman.pdf
>> These "dirty tricks" mirrors are just popping up like mushrooms, aren't
>> they?
>>
>> Microsoft, you can run, but you can't hide.
> 
> Hey shouldn't that go in your sig?

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