Apple's not phasing out their #1 competitive advantage. Avie's leaving because he rich, he's worked very hard for decades, and wants to enjoy himself a bit.
Funny, looks to me like there was just a settlement, with no mention of "damages" or even "wrongdoing".
Oh, sure... Innocent parties just spring for tens of millions of dollars out of the goodness of their hearts, right?
the "fact" is not that Microsoft "killed it",
I read the complaint that Be filed, and MS apparently found it damning enough to cut a deal. Guess what: it really is illegal to threaten your OEM customers to keep them from offering a competitor's product in addition to your own.
-jcr
Re:We tried to get HP to do this...
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Indeed, executive decision support systems like this are precisely what the executive suite needs and it tends to be the layers just below them that are the most resistant so it's a catch-22.
I find that weak managers tend to be afraid of letting any negative information get past them to senior management. If the CEO can look at the idea futures and see that most of the rank-and-file are betting on a later ship date than the first-line managers are telling them, he's going to ask why.
It would be a fascinating exercise to set up an idea futures market at the Evil Empire, and see when Longwind really is going to ship.
Here in the UK, the last thing companies want is new ideas. They all tell you they have enough ideas already. "F#@% off with your new ideas - we have enough already" is what management, especially financial management will tel you.
That's not just a problem in the UK. Many, many American companies have the same attitude, which is why it's so important to have a relatively free market, so that new competitors can emerge to better serve their customers.
If anyone wants ideas enogh to actually pay money for them, let me know.
Most people really like their own ideas. (I know, I've tried to get mine funded, too.)
Truth to tell, Gaseé did a damn fine job at Apple. He also came up with some very fine work at Be. Too bad MS decided to strangle BeOS in the cradle with their illegal threats against PC manufacturers who showed an interest in offering it on their systems.
i should state at the beginning that I will not accept any "proof"
Naturally, you give yourself a way to weasel out of admitting to a fact. You have assumed incorrectly that I care whether or not you do so.
The thing is, you pinkbots are impervious to any information that doesn't fit your world view.
-jcr
Re:Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
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I don't see why Cocoa is in any way better.
Sucks to be you, dude.
-jcr
Re:Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
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And whats so wrong with GTK?
If you seriously don't know, then I'm not sure I could explain it to you. It's rather like trying to explain the difference between sex and masturbation to a virgin.
If Apple want OS X to be taken seriously as a UNIX
Do you have ANY idea what business Apple is in? HINT: Sun is not their competition.
it needs to have cross platfrom GUI libraries.
They do have cross platform GUI libraries, including Qt, Swing, Tk and several others, and like all cross-platform GUI libraries, they suck.
Oh, yes it did. MS has had to make damn sure they didn't break it with later Windows releases, because a lot of Fortune 500 CFOs still use Improv every day.
Another thing I have been wondering about is what will happen when Microsoft decides to scrap MS Office for OS.X?
Well, that would be five years from now at a minimum (see Roz Ho's bit in the MacWorld keynote), and I'm quite sure that in that amount of time, the people who did Pages and Keynote will have those bases covered.
-jcr
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Apple should port GTK and part of the gnome libraries to OS X, with native looks and feel.
Yeah, Apple really needs that inferior GUI library.
It's sad commentary on the state a car company was in pre-merger when one can say (with a straight face, no less) that the company became *more* reliable after being bought by Ford.
No kidding. I had a 1977 Mercury Marquis. If I ever meet the "engineer" who came up with an eighteen hundred dollar carbueretor, I'm going to smack him.
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Apple's not phasing out their #1 competitive advantage. Avie's leaving because he rich, he's worked very hard for decades, and wants to enjoy himself a bit.
-jcr
Funny, looks to me like there was just a settlement, with no mention of "damages" or even "wrongdoing".
Oh, sure... Innocent parties just spring for tens of millions of dollars out of the goodness of their hearts, right?
the "fact" is not that Microsoft "killed it",
I read the complaint that Be filed, and MS apparently found it damning enough to cut a deal. Guess what: it really is illegal to threaten your OEM customers to keep them from offering a competitor's product in addition to your own.
-jcr
Indeed, executive decision support systems like this are precisely what the executive suite needs and it tends to be the layers just below them that are the most resistant so it's a catch-22.
I find that weak managers tend to be afraid of letting any negative information get past them to senior management. If the CEO can look at the idea futures and see that most of the rank-and-file are betting on a later ship date than the first-line managers are telling them, he's going to ask why.
It would be a fascinating exercise to set up an idea futures market at the Evil Empire, and see when Longwind really is going to ship.
-jcr
It might feel nice to point the finger at Microsoft as usual
There was rather more than finger-pointing. MS had to cough up about $23M in damages.
I really think the facts that BeOS was basically beta, had bugger-all software available for it and miserable hardware support
It wasn't finished. That doesn't change the fact that MS killed it.
-jcr
Current management, or Carlie?
-jcr
This sounds like one application of the idea futures market concept, which has been kicking around in academic circles for about a decade now.
-jcr
Whiter?
Most of the rich people I see have a tan.
-jcr
Here in the UK, the last thing companies want is new ideas. They all tell you they have enough ideas already. "F#@% off with your new ideas - we have enough already" is what management, especially financial management will tel you.
That's not just a problem in the UK. Many, many American companies have the same attitude, which is why it's so important to have a relatively free market, so that new competitors can emerge to better serve their customers.
If anyone wants ideas enogh to actually pay money for them, let me know.
Most people really like their own ideas. (I know, I've tried to get mine funded, too.)
-jcr
Truth to tell, Gaseé did a damn fine job at Apple. He also came up with some very fine work at Be. Too bad MS decided to strangle BeOS in the cradle with their illegal threats against PC manufacturers who showed an interest in offering it on their systems.
-jcr
How about the coders who couldn't hit the originally agreed upon deadline?
If there are coders who aren't pulling their weight, it's management's job to motivate them or replace them.
-jcr
Ah, found it. This works out to approximately OC 49,382.
Wow.
-jcr
Someone have the conversion factor handy?
-jcr
i should state at the beginning that I will not accept any "proof"
Naturally, you give yourself a way to weasel out of admitting to a fact. You have assumed incorrectly that I care whether or not you do so.
The thing is, you pinkbots are impervious to any information that doesn't fit your world view.
-jcr
I don't see why Cocoa is in any way better.
Sucks to be you, dude.
-jcr
And whats so wrong with GTK?
If you seriously don't know, then I'm not sure I could explain it to you. It's rather like trying to explain the difference between sex and masturbation to a virgin.
If Apple want OS X to be taken seriously as a UNIX
Do you have ANY idea what business Apple is in? HINT: Sun is not their competition.
it needs to have cross platfrom GUI libraries.
They do have cross platform GUI libraries, including Qt, Swing, Tk and several others, and like all cross-platform GUI libraries, they suck.
-jcr
Are there still "a lot" of Fortune 500 CFOs still using a 13 year old program?
Yep. Improv was that good.
-jcr
Not required by law I don't think, just an ethical/professional thing.
Ethical considerations require that he discloses that he's an apple shareholder, which he has.
-jcr
Actually if they are rewriting 60% of Windows, it's a Good Thing(tm) and Windows Vista may just turn out to be significantly better than Windows XP.
Maybe we'll find out in another six years.
-jcr
Lotus Improv never made it commercially,
Oh, yes it did. MS has had to make damn sure they didn't break it with later Windows releases, because a lot of Fortune 500 CFOs still use Improv every day.
-jcr
Another thing I have been wondering about is what will happen when Microsoft decides to scrap MS Office for OS.X?
Well, that would be five years from now at a minimum (see Roz Ho's bit in the MacWorld keynote), and I'm quite sure that in that amount of time, the people who did Pages and Keynote will have those bases covered.
-jcr
Apple should port GTK and part of the gnome libraries to OS X, with native looks and feel.
Yeah, Apple really needs that inferior GUI library.
-jcr
Daniel Lyons, owner of stock in AAPL.
You say this as if it invalidates his criticism of microsoft. Maybe he's just investing according to his impressions.
-jcr
So... If I write down a little 16-byte message to myself in Notepad containing a name and a phone number, it will take up 4096 bytes.
On most systems in use today, it already does.
Blame the file system, not the sector size on the media.
-jcr
It's sad commentary on the state a car company was in pre-merger when one can say (with a straight face, no less) that the company became *more* reliable after being bought by Ford.
No kidding. I had a 1977 Mercury Marquis. If I ever meet the "engineer" who came up with an eighteen hundred dollar carbueretor, I'm going to smack him.
-jcr
Just prove it that's all.
Look it up yourself: "NAZI" is an acronym. Try finding out what the words are that made up that acronym.
-jcr