• Alberat@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product

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      13 hours ago

      How may Windows engineers have you met?

      99% of the ones I met and worked with were very, very good.

      Don’t confuse maintaining backwards compatibility and managing real concerns of large customers with bad engineering.

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        18 hours ago

        you can still be a good engineer and still copy code from stack exchange. i wasn’t saying windows engineers are bad