On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 23:31 +0200, Radu Cadariu wrote: > 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.
Prin toamna lui 2005 Microsoft a aniversat 30 de ani si am scris atunci un articol pentru Business Magazin pe tema asta. In mare masura e valabil si azi (din punctul meu de vedere, of course): http://www.intraweb.ro/txt/Articole/Weboscop/Microsoft/show Mircea ps/ Pentru comparatie, articolul echivalent pentru Apple :-) http://www.intraweb.ro/txt/Articole/Weboscop/Apple30/show > 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/ =========================================================== 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/
