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They could've just shipped YEdit, which is open source: http://www.malsmith.net/edit/ http://www.malsmith.net/edit/ but there is NIH syndrome in MS.
by niutech 1y ago
They could've just shipped YEdit, which is open source: http://www.malsmith.net/edit/ http://www.malsmith.net/edit/ but there is NIH syndrome in MS.
- zadjii 1y agoYedit actually was written by a Microsoft employee :P It had some problems however with handling unicode (iirc). Basically, shipping yedit would have required a huge re-write of its underlying text buffer. In the end the discussions we had with Malcom concluded that just writing a new one was probably easier and more maintainable in the long run.