On May 24, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2008 07:29:46 -0700
Ganesha Bhaskara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If SUN, IBM etc., starts behaving like MSFT,
Actually, MSFT is behaving like IBM did 30 or 40 years ago.
Not really. IBM tended to be on the cutting edge, and often could not
wait for the standards to catch up. (Standard COBOL, for example, did
not get around to supporting disk files until 1968.) Microsoft, on the
other hand, deliberately pisses in standards simply to protect their
monopoly.
--
John W Kennedy
Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of
incompetence and criminality.
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