On Dec 16, 2007 7:03 PM, Skippy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > La fel ca în cazul multor altor produse (.NET, Internet Explorer 7, > Vista), OOXML este doar o replică la o ameninţarea concurenţială. > Dacă acea ameninţare nu ar fi existat, aceste produse nu ar fi apărut > niciodată. Un monopol nu are nevoie să inoveze. >
ultima propozitiune mi-a declansat amintirea unui articol citit despre istoria MS din perspectiva baricadei ODF, insa care mie mi se pare documentat, comentariile sunt binevenite, poate mai invat si eu cate ceva. Mi s-a parut foarte interesant, citat din Chapter 2: " Instead, Gates and his partners paid careful attention to what was available and successful in the marketplace, and had no compunction about copying the basic designs of products already in the market. In any event, while Microsoft's developers could be creative at the code level, its success was built far more on innovation in business strategy rather than innovation at the level of product design. In the early days of Microsoft, this path was eminently available, because software could not then be patented. Even after that rule was conclusively overturned in the courts in 1998 (ruling on a patent initially granted in 1993), copying the concepts, but not the actual copyright-protected code or screen displays of existing software remained fair game for a time. Only gradually did a sufficient number of software patents accumulate to begin to inhibit the ability of one vendor to create products that substantially replicated the functionalities of competing products." http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/index.php?topic=20071125145019553 R.C. =========================================================== Pentru a renunta la abonament trimiteti un mail catre [EMAIL PROTECTED] incluzind in corpul mesajului: "unsubscribe tic-lobby <adresa_email>". Pagina web a listei se afla la http://beta.agora.ro/agora-bin/lwgate/TIC-LOBBY/ Arhiva se afla la http://beta.agora.ro/agora-bin/lwgate/tic-lobby/archives/
