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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- In article <BzoytD.H4p@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
-
- > Instead of all this the 'sky will fall' rhetoric, please explain how
- >Microsoft will be so disasterously hobbled if its applications divisions
- >are required to be and operate separately from its operating environments
- >(OS, WIndows) ones. According to the word from g., they already do so,
- >therefore one must conclude there will be no negative effects.
-
- What you fail to understand is the psychology and actions of some
- entrepreneurs. If you want to have successful entrepreneurs you have
- to look at what drives them. Otherwise, they may just disappear. Maybe
- you are not bothered by this, but many people do.
-
- BG is not doing these things because he does not have enough money
- for living. He does it because for him it is a game that _involves_
- money. It is fun for him to develop new software. But to play
- a game and enjoy it, you must have some fixed set of rules. Otherwise,
- even playing chess would not be fun.
-
- From a programmer's point of view there is no real separation between
- applications & system software. Almost every application involve
- some interaction with the system or system calls. This separation
- exists only in the mind of the FTC. Now, when entrepreneurs start
- the game, they usually have some long-term goals. They dont know
- ahead of time that some government committee is going to enter into
- the picture later on and arbitrarily change the rules. If that
- occurs too much in new areas they will simply not start to play
- the game.
-
- >Jeff Sicherman
- >up the net without a .sig
-
- Dov
-