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evil and rude adj.

Both evil and rude, but with the additional connotation that

the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence. Thus,

for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is _evil_ because it's a

competent implementation of a bad design; it's _rude_

because it's gratuitously incompatible with Unix in places where

compatibility would have been as easy and effective to do; but

it's _evil and rude_ because the incompatibilities are

apparently there not to fix design bugs in Unix but rather to

lock hapless customers and developers into the Microsoft way.

Hackish _evil and rude_ is close to the mainstream sense of

`evil'.

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