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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:35:49 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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On Tue, 07 Jan 2003, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> Been there (though it wasn't within the last 20 years). The only justification
> for not releasing the specifications is incompetent hardware design worked
> around by software. Releasing the software would reveal how incompetent
> some designers are.

Or they just didn't have the time or other resources to go for the real
solution, but just /had/ to crutch around. They wouldn't be allowed to
tell even their wife as long as they worked with the same employer.
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