From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Microsoft's word
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:03:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ic6ij$jn6$1@forge.intermeta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107090839.EAA14883@smarty.smart.net> <3B498A55.3E5069BF@idb.hist.no>
Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no> writes:
>Nope. It might cause microsoft to ensure that nothing remains backward
>compatible for as much as five years. True innovation is one way,
>obfuscation and needless interface changes and standards
>breakage/"extension"
>is the easier route. What tends to happen when a competitor implements
>some popular standard better than ms does?
We may find this out for .NET and Ximian.
Regards
Henning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-09 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-09 8:39 Microsoft's word Rick Hohensee
2001-07-09 10:16 ` john slee
2001-07-09 10:41 ` [OT] " Helge Hafting
2001-07-09 12:03 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
2001-07-09 18:02 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-09 18:37 ` Rick Hohensee
2001-07-09 18:32 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-07-09 18:37 ` Rik van Riel
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