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windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product
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.
you can still be a good engineer and still copy code from stack exchange. i wasn't saying windows engineers are bad