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		romanovcode on Nov 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Sourcing the Microsoft JDBC Driver and Maven ... Microsoft is a tech company just like many others. You can nitpick all you want but all companies have imperfect code and it is normal.

cobookman on Nov 18, 2016 [–]

Sure. I don't fault them. Just curious that Microsoft doesn't force a linter on devs. At google we generally force style guide compliance.

romanovcode on Nov 21, 2016 | [–]

My guess is that this code is pretty old.

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