>>>>If it's all so nice... I wonder why is it so easy to find stuff against these guys? The rest of the world is evil and hates them, I guess.
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>>>Could it be for the same reason so many find faults and hate Bill Gates and Microsoft?! When one is on the top of the worlds (business, sports, or otherwise) they become world's favorite pinata <g>
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>>My gripe with Microsoft is 22 years old. They weren't so big then, but were just as bad.
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>What did they do to you back then? <g>.

We were using Microsoft Cobol for CP/M back then. It had indexed files which would become randomly inaccessible once the number of records exceeded 32767. Our distributor was told to keep silent about that, and only when I proved to my boss (a fellow mathematician, luckily) that it would give different results depending on whether you were trying to read certain records by key, by record number or by just reading them sequentially in key order or in physical order. We were given a spare set of indexing routines to use instead of Microsoft's, and I got that to work (imagine storing actual buffers in Cobol, then pointers to those buffers in some control blocks... pointers in Cobol :) only after a few near all-nighters, unnecessary travels and nerves lost.