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- From a previous post by Jeff Sicherman:
-
- > Oh, I think there will still be plenty of opportunities for Billy boy if
- >he works at it. However, it may put a crimp in his megalomania. And I fail
- >to see why we have to tailor the marketplace for the most extreme desires
- >of entreprenuers if that results in being to corruption of the market and
- >the detriment of consumers.
-
- You asked what may happen as a result of FTC actions and I gave
- you my answer. Read some books about successful entrepeneurs if you
- don't believe me.
-
- When I am buying software I could not care less about BG's personality
- traits. I would worry about them if I wanted to be his girlfriend -:). I
- am not interested in discussing any of his personality traits that
- are unrelated to software writing.
-
- The marketplace is a place where people are trading _voluntarily_. If
- some government beaurocrats dictate to a software house how it should
- write software it is no longer a market place, but a govermentpalace.
-
- > The rules are there and long established and well documented. (Bill
- >could learn a few things about documented rules himself.) All he has
- >to do is follow them.
-
- Show me where it is written on the books that the same software house
- cannt write both system and applications, or that a company who
- writes system API must give them all to their competitors. It is
- purely an _ad hoc_ invention of the FTC, based on the success of
- a single a company.
-
- > Apparently you have developed a new philosophy of applications
- >programming that I have not seen in my 20+ years of it. The best
- >applications programming involves adhereing to the well defined
- >interface supplied by the O/S and not mucking about with and/or in
- >undocumented areas or the internals.
-
- Wuh ? In the MS-DOS market you cannt avoid knowing a lot about
- the internals of the system and the hardware. Ever heard about
- writing interrupt handlers ?
-
- Besides, you say that if something has been so for 20+ years than
- it cannt be better otherwise. Did it ever occur to you that some
- people are innovators and are doing things differently from their
- predecessors ? That is where the danger of FTC rulings are.
-
- >Jeff Sicherman
- >up the net without a .sig
-
- Dov
-