Jean-Sebastien Perron schrieb:
Don't forget that a IBM PC COMPATIBLE could be built and sold by anyone.
Amiga was dictatorship, IBM standard was opened.
They even published their board layouts & were nearly inastantly ripped
off by Taiwanese look-alikes :) ...
MS NEVER commited such an "error": They knew how to use their "property"
up to the limit & got rich & fat by it.....
And I dream of the day when the arrogant and idiot (everything on the
look nothing inside) Apple disappear for good.
There are a lot of people - especially in the graphics industry - which
will dismiss your "nothing inside" as a completely
unqualified statement with no personal experience with the system(s)
whatsoever (I am NOT an Apple owner nor do I
share their business philosophy but fact is fact); sorry ....
Microsoft saved the computer world by imposing a much needed standard
and by helping and welcoming developers.
A lot of developers who have experienced the rather stringent
non-disclosure conditions of MS would surely disagreee. As to
the "standards" question: whenever there's a (DIN or ISO) standard which
MS doesn't like they try to bend and twist and
"embetter" it with something MS-specific to kick the competition in the
a....; latest proof are its efforts to push its
Open Office XML proposal through the ISO gates (and didn't succeed
because of this bad habit :)....)
Look at the total failure of linux : no standard -> no serious people
are using it.
What are "serious people" by your standards ? And what is the "total
failure" ? Why are you insulting countless professionals
all over the world ? Even the Realsoft team DOES use Linux and a lot of
internet traffic would not run without Linux boxes;
everybody who's in the business knows THAT :).......
As for (internationally accepted)"standards": programs under Linux
follow them more closely than MS ever did or intended to ....
Vista Home Premius OEM is 120$ us, this is cheaper than most released
of Linux.
Simply wrong.
The main problem in computer today is still the compatibility
standards. Just think of all the junk software (quicktime,
acrobatreader, flash...)
Adobe - quite to the contrary of Microsoft (who NEVER published the NTFS
"standard" they are using) - published their standards (POSTSCRIPT,
Acrobat) from the very beginning (you can even download them for free
from their website) -
and they are used by the printing industry all the world over: "junk" is
an unqualified insult to their excellent work; sorry again :)....
you need to download to be able to navigate on the internet.
You seem to dislike the concept of "plug-ins" entirely - am I right ?
And you seem to favour monolithic solutions - "one
animal which does EVERYTHING" - this would explain your dislike against
the modular Linux/UNIX philosopy & your
"trust" in MS as the superhero of
"never-agreed-upon-but-factual-standards" ;-).....
There are no standard on the internet, everyone lose. The war between
Blu-ray and "HD DVD no hd sound" no standard : everybody lose.
We all agree upon the usefulness of standards. The crucial question is:
Who decides/imposes them ? Are they well-documented
and published (MS is a bad example in this regard) and do firms adhere
to them (as for W3C conformity MSI Explorer
does NOT score better than other browsers, to put it rather "friendly"
:)....) ?
What good is your software if only a small % of people can actually
use it on their computer.
Look at the games on a PC. I would like to play Crysis, but I will
probably be able to run in only in 5 years. Everybody lose when there
is no standard.
Micro$soft solved 95% of the problem of computer by imposing THE ONLY
WAY.
Wishful thinking. They created a moving target which produced products
which are at times uncompatible with earlier versions
of themselves (MS Word is a case in point). They make you completely
dependent on their whims and conditions.
And microsoft is still the only company in the world supporting
developers : cheap and free SDK, well documentation with tutorials,
free libraries, DirectX etc.
Wrong again. The Linux kernel is the best documented OS-part in history.
The Linux community is far more supportive than
all the MS support you could buy (and they LET you pay for their support
VERY expensively as a lot of professionals
will testify). DirectX is in my eyes no blessing, but a gate white open
to Internet marauders,trojans & the like :(.....
Try to understand something about coding for Linux, Qnx or Mac.
Yep, I DID that. If you WANT it & don't shy away from the effort, you
can UNDERSTAND and HAVE IT ALL ...
(you could never ever do that with MS products). Powerful & efficient
coding needs hard work, regardless of the OS.
By the way, even MS doesn't dismiss Linux as blindly as you did; with
its Novell "partnership" they try to "embrace"
it as they couldn't kill the unwanted competition :).....
Just my 5 cents ....
Wolfram Schwenzer
