Ah yes, you must be referring to Microsoft's linux distro.

When he used the word barrator, I think Dante was referring to people who traded in church and government offices, not overly litigious lawyers.

From TFA: " ...our source conceded that hardware OEMs were writing WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) drivers for a moving target during Vista's beta and release-candidate periods. Our source told us that because of low-level OS changes, hardware vendors didn't have sufficient time to develop and test their drivers. This mirrors what Steven Sinofsky, the head of the Windows team, said in an interview with Cnet earlier this year: 'The schedule challenges that we had, and the information disclosure weren't consistent with the realities of the project, which made it all a much trickier end point when we got to general availability in January.' "