evil and rude

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'.
    

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)