Interchangable parts doesn't mean interoperability. The guns you refer to were interchangeable only as far as the same model/manufacturer. When I ran mac os pre X, after a clean install I ususally made copies of my finder and system suitcase, I could then given strange problems later on, replace the ones that had been running for months or whatever with the 'clean' copy. I could also take them to other macs with the same OS version and switch them. That's interchangable. I couldn't have taken my finder to a windows machine and put it in there...that would have been interoperability. And I couldn't have taken a trigger from a S&W and used it on a Colt.
Mike On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Tom's comment had been in reply to a discussion of multiple > >incompatible phone systems. It is well documented that MS > >has fostered their incompatible systems in an attempt to gain > >advantage. This is a frequent subject for analysis in economics > >texts. It was entirely appropriate for Tom to bring it up as a > >parallel example to the phone systems, but it was wrong for > >him to attribute a significant proportion of US business' > >behavior to the following of MS' example. This has been going > >on for much longer than MS has been any kind of power. > > I remember from my high school history class, one of the dates I had to > memorize was for the introduction of rifles made with interchangeable > parts. Yes, interoperability is that important. > > I have since forgotten the date. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
