" Every time MS senses a competitve edge they go against industry standards. Take COM for instance. MS knows that once they can get into a market they can bundle that product to the OS and effectivly stamp out competition. Soon we'll get MSNmesenger on our new computers when we buy them. "
Sounds like a good business plan to me.
" It make sense for MS to create a standard. Once a standard has been integrated into windows MS can change it and the rest of the industry is forced to comply. If, 3 years later, MS desides to change to a proprietary standard they can. That way only MS clients will work on anyones server. "
Again, sound business plan.
" It's like MS Java. Someone had a great idea and MS decides to steal it. Once they have a market share they can eliminate all competition. Even if they have to take a loss to do it. This is a clear example of MS's attitude that every computer in the world should be running *only* MS software. "
Isn't that the point of a business???
Who opens a business and says "Jee, I think I'll write some open standards and let everyone else have an equal slice of the pie." ???
This is why Microsoft is on top, because everyone else is in some state of delusion about what capitalism is about...
If you want open protocols, write them. No one is holding a gun to your head. That's why Linus is interesting, not because he whines about MS's business practices, but because he actually did something to compete.
" Unless I'm mistaken in the above premise, rolling out the infrastructure for HSA _is_ going to be a profit-making activity for whatever company has the foresight (and more to the point, the available cash-on-hand) to do the rolling. "
Perhaps you are mistaken...
Laying cable requires investors. Investors like businesses with high rates of return. The rate of return on a cable co. that has a monopoly on it's cables will have a higher rate of return then otherwise. The rate of return on a cable co. that doesn't have a monopoly on it's cables may simply not be great enough for investors to invest in...
Putting these all together, you may very well see investors shy away from laying new infrastructure.
Furthermore, if you were a cable company, what would intice you to increase the speed and quality of your network:
1) having competitors lay their own cable, but get to keep doing whatever you damn well please with your own.
2) keeping a monopoly on your cable, but losing your monopoly -- and money -- on the content ?
We've seen what happens when we have a monopoly on the infrastructure only...we get big bloated companies that manage the infrastructure poorly, and only do anything about it when someone else creates a competitive infrastructure (ahem, ADSL vs. cable modems...).
"yet another option is LDAP. Local Directory Access Protocol. "
You meant of course, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol...
LDAP has nothing to do with being local or remote...in fact, ldap is neat because the database can actually be distributed across multiple servers anywhere on the internet seamlessly.
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Why do you say it's shameful?
" Every time MS senses a competitve edge they go against industry standards. Take COM for
instance. MS knows that once they can get into a market they can bundle that product to
the OS and effectivly stamp out competition. Soon we'll get MSNmesenger on our new computers when we buy them. "
Sounds like a good business plan to me.
" It make sense for MS to create a standard. Once a standard has been integrated into windows MS can change it and the rest of the industry is forced to comply. If, 3 years later, MS desides to change to a proprietary standard they can. That way
only MS clients will work on anyones server. "
Again, sound business plan.
" It's like MS Java. Someone had a great idea and MS decides to steal it. Once they have a
market share they can eliminate all competition. Even if they have to take a loss to do it.
This is a clear example of MS's attitude that every computer in the world should be
running *only* MS software. "
Isn't that the point of a business???
Who opens a business and says "Jee, I think I'll write some open standards and let everyone else have an equal slice of the pie." ???
This is why Microsoft is on top, because everyone else is in some state of delusion about what capitalism is about...
If you want open protocols, write them. No one is holding a gun to your head. That's why Linus is interesting, not because he whines about MS's business practices, but because he actually did something to compete.
Why was this message rated a 2 for insightful?????
It's mindless trash and should have been given a -1.
" Unless I'm mistaken in the above premise, rolling out the infrastructure for HSA _is_ going to be a profit-making activity for whatever company has the foresight (and more to the point, the available cash-on-hand) to do the rolling. "
Perhaps you are mistaken...
Laying cable requires investors.
Investors like businesses with high rates of return.
The rate of return on a cable co. that has a monopoly on it's cables will have a higher rate of return then otherwise.
The rate of return on a cable co. that doesn't have a monopoly on it's cables may simply not be great enough for investors to invest in...
Putting these all together, you may very well see investors shy away from laying new infrastructure.
Furthermore, if you were a cable company, what would intice you to increase the speed and quality of your network:
1) having competitors lay their own cable, but get to keep doing whatever you damn well please with your own.
2) keeping a monopoly on your cable, but losing your monopoly -- and money -- on the content ?
We've seen what happens when we have a monopoly on the infrastructure only...we get big bloated companies that manage the infrastructure poorly, and only do anything about it when someone else creates a competitive infrastructure (ahem, ADSL vs. cable modems...).
"yet another option is LDAP. Local Directory Access Protocol. "
You meant of course, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol...
LDAP has nothing to do with being local or remote...in fact, ldap is neat because the database can actually be distributed across multiple servers anywhere on the internet seamlessly.