[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> So if a new wedge and glue can be written so easily, where is this
> lethergy coming from???? Simple: In the tradition of MS anti-trust,
> the APIs involved are neither standard nor public. There are secret
> APIs, with contractual pain of death and double-secret probation
> attached if you disclose them. So noone outside of MS can write a
> new wedge, and if you dare you'll feel the full weight of MS lawyers
> upon you...
Not just that, but there are non-standard low-level APIs that
permeate the entire programming model, for example the socket api and
the string handling. This makes it more difficult to separate out the
parts that should be platform-independent.
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