> > ... All you need is an old guy with a biplane and a few
> > sharpened telephone poles strapped underneath. ... dives,
> > letting them go poking through Unkle Billy's roof.
The point of the above, was to get the message to Unkle Billy, and
how he probably wouldn't get it even with such extreme measures.
> Anti-Microsoft fanaticism may have its place, though I would
> suggest that it is not on a mailing list for web consultants,
> but this is beginning to cross over into something both sick
> and scary. The standard excuse of "I was just kidding" doesn't
> apply to this kind of thing.
The more important part of my message dealt with the Lego-Block like
ability to stack things together, just as we link web pages across servers
around he world, and how Unix has that at a philosophical level, all the
way down to the driver level. Windows doesn't.
What does that have to do with The Web? Everything! The web is about
connectivity, interoperability, and stacking!
I could not do what I do on the web using Windows, not without a LOT
more effort! I am polling the web every minute that I am on, (despite
occasional transient phone problems we've been having this past week,)
running local web servers, and some really compute heavy asks that would
kill a windows machine. I server the web on a network of Linux and Unix
machines. If wondoze were better -- more efficient, easier to work with,
and better up-time, I would be using it without regard to who produced it.
And more important, most of us would be able to do more on the web!
Better web generation software, servers on every machine, etc. And with
that, would have come all kinds of intelligent negotiation and agent
software. It is one heck of a lot easier to write on Linux/Unix than on
"woodnose"! This has stunted the evolution of the web in ways we can
barely imagine. It is too hard to try, and without the ability to try new
things, succeed or fail, imagination itself is stunted.
MS chose NOT to support interoperability and stack-ability with anyone
but themselves. MS chose NOT to support programmability except with
expensive add-ons, thus impeding growth. Is it any wonder other, more
facilitative systems are catching on?
Quite frankly, I don't care if MS's proprietary schemes are self
limiting, that is THEIR problem! What bugs me however, are memos that
say they are going to reach out and subvert open standards to destroy
anyone else's ability to build different kinds of systems. It is as if
they think the world is theirs and theirs alone.
That, and their desire to crack everyone's computer to see what is on
it, using their TIDE robots to try to suck IPX and other strange packets
off machines that they notice. They have NO DAMNED RIGHT to touch my
machine!!! It has come to the point where when someone sends me e-mail
form msn or another microsoft source, and the response would be sensitive
or have statistically odd words, I just don't bother to reply. Because I
know that within a week or two, microsoft's tide robots will come sniffing
at my door! Right or wrong, I am convinced they have some kind of
statistical monitors on their network, and are investigating the contents
of other people's machines. I know they were running their own search
engines long before they got involved with any public ones, because I kept
getting hit by them too, despite my repeated complaints!
(Every other search engine company that has accidently hit my little
desktop machine has politely removed it from their lists, every one but
microsoft! And ms NEVER acknowledged ANY correspondence on the matter!
Everyone else did. But once legal got wind of our patent discussions with
their engineering folks, that is exactly what they told their people to do
with our negotiations!)
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