On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 10:03:12AM -0500, Michael A. Stone wrote:
(as part of a VERY well-written explanation of OOP)
> Microsoft has made a fortune running the same idea in reverse.. [...]
>
> that's one of the reasons Microsoft wants Java dead.. a truly useful
> set of standards for a programming environment would give people an
> alternative to the Microsoft treadmill.
Well-spoken. It's also one of the reasons that Microsoft has attended
to derail, co-opt, or squash a lot of standardization in other areas
related to the 'net. To borrow your analogy, if the computing environment
is like a set of Legos, then one is not constrained to buy all of one's
Legos from one source...so one way to keep from losing market share
is to make incrementally non-interoperable Legos and lock people into
a single variety.
They're not alone in this, btw: Novell still pushes their networking
protocols (long dead) and IBM still pushes SNA (very, very, extremely dead).
They do so by using key phrases like "backward-compatible" and "legacy
systems"; but what they're really doing is trying to keep their customers
wriggling on the hook long enough to sell them more proprietary stuff.
And many of their customers have been on the hook so long that they're
going to have great trouble getting off. Even if they can, it's
probably going to be a painful experience.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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