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Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Kissaki@feddit.org 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The stupid, old, irritating cycle of: You implement against a standard, and then you implement exceptions for third party users of the standard. ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

But in this case it's first-party, and they still had to make an exception