In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:57:02 +0100
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> __/ [ Robert Newson ] on Tuesday 25 April 2006 22:49 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Microsoft has played down a feature in open source rival OpenOffice.org
>>> | that removes some password protection on Office applications.
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | John McCreesh, marketing project co-lead for OpenOffice.org, said that
>>> | the removal of protection passwords from Excel files was a feature of
>>> | Calc, not a bug.
>>
>> Feature:- Bug as described by the marketing Department[1]
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>> [1] An Apple ][ manual glossary definition
>
> Gates /et al./ were always able to sell the computer with CTRL+ALT+Delete,
> which of course was a feature.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete
>
> "I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill [Gates] made it famous"
>
> Could BSoD also be called a feature? Call in the spin doctors.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
BSOD is in fact a feature, probably put in by a nameless
engineer in NT and Windows long ago (there are a number
of variants). I don't know how useful it is of course,
and the fact that it pops up way too often is a tribute --
if one can call it that -- to other engineers in Microsoft
who got a little sloppy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSoD
Maybe we'll find out in a manner similar to the outing
of Mark Felt, who kept the secret for the longest time
that he was the infamous Watergate Scandal's "Deep Throat". :-)
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