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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17490)2/14/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Better get a broom and a real big rug infoworld.com

Just so you don't think the Infoworld brigade is unaware of that other company, they get hit too, on the upcoming source release.

Essentially there are two problems.

One is that when you shovel code out the door as fast as Netscape has, the coding practice you use isn't exactly top-notch. Reminds me of the soda jerk who serves a record number of sundaes and then discovers he can't find his miniature poodle; there's stuff lurking in the code that the folks at Netscape don't exactly want to share with the world. Little bugs here. A few warts there. That kind of thing.

The other minidilemma is apparently that there is more than a negligible amount of rough language in the program comments. Not quite enough lingua and a little too much franca. Or put another way, it's one thing to suggest that Microsoft attempt a certain act with a family member, but it's quite another to write it down and send it to 10,000-plus people.

To tell the truth, this is the first thing I thought of when the source announcement came. Although more on the first issue than the second. I imagine the Netscapers took full advantage of their constitutional right to call Bill Gates a hairball, before the antitrust division comes through and negates that right.

Cheers, Dan.
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