[Cialug] Microsoft is getting better

[David Bierce]

That's always been true of the Samba project in particular.

Back in the day when they were first reverse engineering the protocol,  
they found ways for incoming network traffic to blue screen the  
machine with nothing more than the samba test harness.  They still  
tell Microsoft about all the issues they find.  Making their product  
better everyday :)


On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Matthew Nuzum
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