On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:44:22PM -0700, Wade Curry wrote: > Randall Shimizu([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:23:56PM -0800: > > Microsoft has mad so many people unhappy that it's afraid of any > > competition. So the only way to defend themselves is extend and > > embrace and try to lock people in. That is essentially what .NET > > is all about. Bill Gates publicly admitted that Microsoft > > protocols were designed to be propietary to thwart > > interoperability. This is why Microsoft is on this patenting > > binge. Now that it is harder to lock customers with propietary > > protocols they can dersail OSS and other competitors with IP > > patents. So in other words public IP now becomes private. > > > > I would like to see a reference to that public admission. Such an > admission would be equivalent to saying, "customers can go to hell, > we'd rather block their main concern of compatibility so they can > share, than possibly compete in any respectable fashion." > > I don't see many people saying that they feel locked in, though. > They may be irritated at times if sharing data with a Mac or Linux > user doesn't work as it should. Unfortunately, the real "lock-in" > is in the form of a mild delusion. When a person has those kinds > of difficulties, they automatically assume the other platform is > the broken one. >
I was shocked at how quickly my company lined up to go C# and .NET. It's been the source of several problems, predictably ... but our developers couldn't wait to do it. Delusional indeed. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
