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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:38:01 GMT
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- bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
-
- >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 ?
-
- This is very silly. It is not at all necesarry to write an interrupt
- handler for a regular piece of software. In fact, why would anyone
- want to go invent the wheel over and over again? There are
- libraries you can use to do almost anything these days. No need
- to know about the system at all, except for trivial things, like
- does it provide graphics or not, does it have a clock or not and
- such. Still these things can be solved at the high level language
- level.
-
- Erik
-
- >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
- --
- Erik van Linstee | Delft University of Technology | I'll be back ...
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