Neglecting an enemy is a well proving strategy *that does not work*, but maybe he only pretends? Sounds exactly like the strategy of a former Iraqi Information Minister, and look how that went.
If MS really want to neglect (it's most potent?) enemy, let them do just that. Fine by me!
The sooner I can exchange Win XP and the even worse Vista, the better.
Microsofts style of inventing, copyrights, market domination, "care" for customers and all the other nice stories they give us would be a good manuscript for makin one of these bad Hollywood movies about internet, hackers and big bad companies and all the other "scary tings" things they are having in these movies. At least this movie will have som relevance, because it has really happened.
In 10 years everyone will be laughing at Microsfts infantile, stupid inventions and copyrights.
With so many bugs, security holes and stupid copyrights, Microsoft is making fools of themselves. How much can IT-managers take before they turn to someone else? If that happens./ users can start doing something more useful than complaining about software they are not using (ARE YOU???), more than they have to. Maby it won't be that amusing though...
Opening up the API for the Desktop, to improve marketing of applications made by other companies than MS, does not change anything but maybe making security problems i Windows even worse.
If MS wants to use Open Source to avoid spiltting the company, they got to get more serious. The first ting to release the source code for is their Kerberos and authentification service. They must also open the source code for OLE/COM/COM+, networking, NT Services API, and a lot of other stuff.
This will make a real difference, and competitors can make real applications that can compete with MS on Windows, and also improve the interworking with other OS's.
The proposal from MS just makes me sick, because it's just using the tricks that the bitches in TV series using for getting their way. Real programmers understand this difference, and I certanly hope that the court and judge Jackson will.
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Neglecting an enemy is a well proving strategy *that does not work*, but maybe he only pretends? Sounds exactly like the strategy of a former Iraqi Information Minister, and look how that went.
If MS really want to neglect (it's most potent?) enemy, let them do just that. Fine by me!
The sooner I can exchange Win XP and the even worse Vista, the better.
Microsofts style of inventing, copyrights, market domination, "care" for customers and all the other nice stories they give us would be a good manuscript for makin one of these bad Hollywood movies about internet, hackers and big bad companies and all the other "scary tings" things they are having in these movies. At least this movie will have som relevance, because it has really happened.
In 10 years everyone will be laughing at Microsfts infantile, stupid inventions and copyrights.
With so many bugs, security holes and stupid copyrights, Microsoft is making fools of themselves. How much can IT-managers take before they turn to someone else? If that happens ./ users can start doing something more useful than complaining about software they are not using (ARE YOU???), more than they have to. Maby it won't be that amusing though...
Opening up the API for the Desktop, to improve marketing of applications made by other companies than MS, does not change anything but maybe making security problems i Windows even worse.
If MS wants to use Open Source to avoid spiltting the company, they got to get more serious. The first ting to release the source code for is their Kerberos and authentification service. They must also open the source code for OLE/COM/COM+, networking, NT Services API, and a lot of other stuff.
This will make a real difference, and competitors can make real applications that can compete with MS on Windows, and also improve the interworking with other OS's.
The proposal from MS just makes me sick, because it's just using the tricks that the bitches in TV series using for getting their way. Real programmers understand this difference, and I certanly hope that the court and judge Jackson will.