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evil and rude
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adj. Both evil and rude , but with the additional connotation that the
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rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence. Thus, for example:
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Microsoft's Windows NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a
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bad design; it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with Unix in
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places where compatibility would have been as easy and effective to do; but
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it's evil and rude because the incompatibilities are apparently there not to
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fix design bugs in Unix but rather to lock hapless customers and developers
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into the Microsoft way. Hackish evil and rude is close to the mainstream
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sense of evil.
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