Brent Eades wrote:
>
> I have been struck more than once by the parallels between MS business practices
> and the Stalinist regime in the USSR earlier in the century: both brutal autocracies
> brooking nary a hint of dissent; both with gulags where competing points of view go
> (in the MS case it's called "licensing the other guy's software then burying it");
>and
> so on.
[ Brent mentions Liquid Motion "shareware" offer ]
Ironically enough, Liquid Motion was one technology that Microsoft
acquired and *didn't* bury. Some social acquaintances of mine developed
the technology at a cool little startup called DimensionX two years ago.
Soon after Liquid Motion's release under the DimensionX aegis, MS
snapped 'em up. A year later, it emerges as an MS product.
> Did you notice that LM isn't available for the Mac, even though a large %
> of graphic designers use Macs?
All I can say is that Liquid Motion and DNX's other products were
entirely developed for the MS platforms from the beginning. There were
also some Java versions, though I don't recall if they actually saw the
light of day. DNX, as far as I know, had no real plans for developing
for other platforms.
Julian
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