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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:59:53 +0100
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>
> the fact that it
>seems to consist of a random collection of constantly changing APIs
>designed, if that's the right word, by different groups of people who never
>talked to each other about things such as a uniform method for reporting
>errors.
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>

that's a business model, those MSDN subscriptions aren't free ya know


[at least they weren't free the day I stopped reading them]