> I have seen more companies release software products > before they should have been released full of all manner of bugs. Look > at Microsoft. It almost seems like they deliberately put bugs into > their products, but I know better. It is a market-driven economy, so > they have to release their products ahead of their competition to > compete in the marketplace, THEN they fix it (maybe).
Actually, Bill, what you say applies to every software company EXCEPT Microsoft. The PC OS market is not market-driven, it's vendor-driven. And that vendor is Microsoft. That's what happens when a monopoly exists. Before anyone starts arguing that Microsoft is not a monopoly, consider this: 1) Microsoft was found to be a monopoly in the U.S. Dept of Justice anti-trust case. This is a fact. 2) There are no other 100% compatible and complete implementations of the Windows APIs. Thus, the only way to achieve 100% compatibility between Windows apps and the OS, is to use Microsoft Windows OS. I've often wondered why there are no clones of the Windows OS. There were clones of MS-DOS, one of which was very good (DR-DOS). With modern software tools (protected mode debuggers, SoftICE, disassemblers, etc.), it should not be that difficult to reverse engineer the way Windows OS's work, write a spec for the API, hand that spec to some clean-room programmers, who then write a Windows OS clone. It seems to me that someone is missing a great market opportunity here - sell a fully functional clean-room clone of Windows OS for $39 boxed retail. Tell your unemployed software engineer buddies to get hot and do it! Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Dager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] What is the meaning of "DXP" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
