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But it will only be the same code base to a manager or bean-counter. There will so much conditional code and special casing that maintenance will be a nightmare. Fix things for system, break the others. (Or "same code base" just means all stored with in the same repository.)

Same old Microsoft, same old mistakes.

The headline obscures the real point of the article. In the UK we don't need to refrigerate our eggs at the point of production (or spray them with chemicals) because our chickens and eggs are much healthier due to superior and more sanitory production methods than those prevalent in the USA. And so eggs are almost always sold at room temperature and usually refrigerated at home. And, as others have noted, the UK is not synonymous with Europe.

Repeatable, "reliable" only in the sense that you can rely on the outcome.

Or perhaps like dogs peeing on lampposts - just leaving their mark. Most of these people are incapable of comprehending the internals of SSL or contributing to it, so they comment on trivialities (which they do not understand either). Dragging things down to their own level is another way of putting it.