...Much good stuff snipped...
> trick of OOP is to define standard interfaces between those components
> so you end up with something more like a LEGO set for the kitchen.
> Microsoft has made a fortune running the same idea in reverse.. they
> define standards by which pieces can plug together, but they declare
> those standards proprietary and charge people to use them. they also
> make their proprietary standards different from anyone else's, so that
> once you start using them, you're stuck. then they control the
> competition and lock people in further by making small, incremental
> changes to the standards over time. the longer your product uses the
> Microsoft standard, the more completely twisted up it becomes in the
> Microsoft Way.
Excellent description, Mike!!!
The lack of interface openness is what got IBM into court, and later
the openness of the PC, like the openness of the s-100 bus that preceded
it, is what made that market.
It is likely that had IBM used a closed design for the PC, it would
not have been as quick, nor as great, a success. A number of other
manufacturers copied the software aspects, but left out the bus aspects at
the start. Most of them failed in that market. Only where portability was
the key advantage, did they succeed. (Grid, Toshiba. Compac was bus
compatible, as was the TeleVideo TPC-II)
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