evil and rude
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".
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-12)
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