[Cialug] Microsoft is getting better

[Matthew Nuzum]

Hi, a co-worker of mine, Michael Hudson (of PyPy fame), recently went
to OSDC in sydney. He reported an interesting quote from Andrew
Tridgell:

>  * an extremely interesting keynote from Andrew Tridgell about the
>    settlement of the EU anti-trust suit against Microsoft with regards
>    to documenting all their protocols -- it seems that Microsoft have
>    basically made a complete 180 turn in their strategy here and are
>    going way beyond the agreement they were compelled to accept from the
>    court.  The best quote was "What happens when the largest software
>    company in the world learns to write test cases and documentation?
>    They get better.  Yes, Windows is going to get better... Sorry about
>    that",

I would expect Andrew to be the last person in the world to blow smoke
in this regard so this is quite an impressive statement.

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Matthew Nuzum
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