There was some apparent uproar because there was an industry which “changed the flavoring of their product depending on which market segment they were trying to appeal to.” Well duh, don’t all industries do this?
The reason why this even remotely qualified as news didn’t appear until the last five words of the article!
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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