On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Isaac Atilano wrote: > I think saying that Microsoft is making their products crappy on purpose > is giving them too much credit. When you're working with software that > is so overly complex and bloated, it'd be a miracle if it weren't so > crappy. > > A highlight: these system call diagrams. > http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311 Let's put it this way: When your corporation is worth $500 billion, you can fix your software. The reason they don't do it is not that their software is too complex and bloated, it's that they don't have a monetary incentive. The incentive system is pushing them away from producing higher quality products. Mike