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[–] Alberat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Alberat@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

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