evil and rude

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evil and rude - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

evil and rude - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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'.