I see what you mean. I'm sure a monopoly leveraging accusation can be brought about.
If anything, dumping can be brought up.
FYI, being a Ma Bell brat, I had some conversations with a few old friends who made
some very interesting -- yes I know this is WAY off
topic; just tell me to shut up or move this elsewhere and I will -- comparisons. That
the corporate environment of Microsoft very much
parallels the corporate culture of Ma Bell just before the break-up.
That is, a very lofty "we can do anything" mindset, an over emphasis of admin., well
paid professional lip service people to attempt to
put up whatever public spin they desire but most of all, a totally hypocritical
practice of "open systems" and "open innovation" when
they were trying every dirty trick they could to stop MCI. The fallout from the
Microsoft breakup will be as profitable as when Me Bell
was broken up.
Steve
"Michael S. Davis" wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Steve Sabram wrote:
>
> > Going away development tools is nothing new. Hell, there is one for the Palm
>platform right now. Personally, I gave PocketPC a
> > rundown when it came out and overall wasn't impressed. The one really big turn
>off that I saw was a total lack of consistency of
> > the hardware buttons. It is like having a different keyboard layout per
>manufacturer. Also, there was no common machanical
> > interface for whole modules to connect such as the Modem connector or Springboard
>slots.
>
> The difference is:
> 1) Microsoft never has given away development tools before.
> 2) Only by giving away their, previously charged for product, do they
> hope to run the competition out of business.
> 3) If MicroSoft is so magnanomous, why don't they give their Win32
> development system away for free? Because they already dominate that OS
> market.
> 4) The GCC tools you refer to is a non-for profit organization, not hell
> bent on putting competition out of business.
>
> > Overall, I expect the PocketPC stuff to fizzle out by the end of the summer and
>then a lot of new PalmOS licensed devices will be
> > released as in the past.
>
> Not going to happen, unless Palm comes out with a larger screen; better
> sound, etc. The features of the HP 548 are hard to overlook. And now
> you can write programs for FREE.
>
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > "Michael S. Davis" wrote:
> >
> > > One of the things that makes Palm so attractive is the vast number of
> > > applications. Partly due to the low cost of developement s/w.
> > >
> > > Microsoft wants the PDA OS market.
> > >
> > > Microsoft has always charged big bucks for Development Systems.
> > >
> > > Microsoft has always charged big bucks for CE Toolkits.
> > >
> > > Now, in order to gain market share, Microsoft is doing with CE Dev that
> > > it did with browsers. It's giving away their development systems for
> > > Windows CE.
> > >
> > > Sounds like another lawsuit in the making.
> > >
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