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    This is my own biased opinion, but I think this is due to the abundance of poor documentation. With open source software, at least the code is available and people can spread tribal knowledge...

    it seems that only the developers at the Microsoft HQ knew what this one meant.

    This is my own biased opinion, but I think this is due to the abundance of poor documentation. With open source software, at least the code is available and people can spread tribal knowledge publicly. But with proprietary code, that tribal knowledge never makes it out to the users. And without proper documentation of error codes, you end up having to nuke the system if blind debugging doesn't work.

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