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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>evil and rude</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="evil.html" title="evil"/><link rel="next" href="Evil-Empire.html" title="Evil Empire"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">evil and rude</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="evil.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Evil-Empire.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="evil-and-rude"/><dt xmlns="" id="evil-and-rude"><b>evil and rude</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Both <a href="evil.html"><i class="glossterm">evil</i></a> and <a href="../R/rude.html"><i class="glossterm">rude</i></a>,
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but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice
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rather than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is
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<span class="i">evil</span> because it's a competent implementation
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of a bad design; it's <span class="i">rude</span> because it's
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gratuitously incompatible with Unix in places where compatibility would
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have been as easy and effective to do; but it's <span class="i">evil and
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rude</span> 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 <span class="i">evil and
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rude</span> is close to the mainstream sense of
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