top | item 45256135 (no title) snackbroken | 5 months ago Sorry, yes. To clarify, it's about withholding features of a product in one market from your competitors in the other market. discuss order hn newest anonymars|5 months ago Yeah, I wasn't trying to be snarky, rather there often seems to be a "private code shouldn't exist, code wants to be free!" ethos that makes my eyebrows twitch in PTSD from reading all of Raymond Chen's tales of depending on undocumented code, e.g.*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=41...*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230113-00/?p=10...*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32...
anonymars|5 months ago Yeah, I wasn't trying to be snarky, rather there often seems to be a "private code shouldn't exist, code wants to be free!" ethos that makes my eyebrows twitch in PTSD from reading all of Raymond Chen's tales of depending on undocumented code, e.g.*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=41...*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230113-00/?p=10...*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32...
anonymars|5 months ago
*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42...
*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=41...
*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230113-00/?p=10...
*https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32...