On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:09:54AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: > Companies are free to 'extend' at their own risk - that's known as > innovation and everyone does that.
I have to take exception at this. Extension is not always the same as innovation! Microsoft is well known for making "extensions" of well-established standards that render them gratuitously incompatible with the rest of the non-Microsoft world. And why? Their monopoly gives them the ability to dictate a de facto standard that will kill off anyone incapable or unwilling to comply with it. That, my friend, is what makes Microsoft's embrace and extend tactics anticompetitive, and in case you didn't know, the whole strategy is embrace, extend, and extinguish. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
