“This is what makes the whole COM system really really stupid. It's like they don't want you to be able to work with it. They want to make it hard for you to access and share data, because code that were to do something wreckless like call fopen is code that could run on anyone's operating system, not just theirs.”

Well doh !

Bill Gates 1987: “OS/2 is the platform for the nineties”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmiwiUeEn4k