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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
> > One legacy bug still in Word97 traces its ancestry directly to Winword
> > 1.0 and DOS4's SHARE bug. And that's just one leetle bit of old code
> > that needs to be cleaned out. Someone dismangled RegClean and found of
> > its 800+k only 47k were required for the program's full functionality;
> > all the rest was irrelevant leftovers. If you ask me, even just these
> > two examples indicate a codebase in desperate need of a thorough
> > housecleaning.
> It would be a lot easier if M$ made parts of Win 9x open source.
> But that will probably never happen.

    But, then how could they charge money for it, when you could get the
sources yourself?


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