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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23931)5/3/2000 12:52:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson  Read Replies (3) of 24154
 
Sayings of Chairman Bill

Salon.com

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Listen to Gates as he rails at the government's proposals: "Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. We couldn't have developed Windows because without the great work of the Office team and the Windows team, it never would have come together."

This statement should cause the jaws of anyone who has followed Microsoft's history to drop. For years the company insisted that the developers of Office's predecessor applications, like Word and Excel, worked in strict isolation from its operating system developers. Separated by a so-called Chinese wall from their operating-system colleagues, the application developers had access only to the same "application programming interface" (API) information that programmers at competing companies knew about. The division, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer declared, was "like the separation of church and state."

Competitors complained that Microsoft kept information about "undocumented" APIs for itself, and that Microsoft programmers exploited special access to the operating system's innards. Microsoft said, "No way!"

Now, Gates says, Windows wouldn't even exist without precisely such cross-team cooperation.

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The saddest thing about this situation is that it proves, in fact, that Microsoft's leaders really aren't very smart after all -- they're victims of their own emotions. Trapped in the psychological bunker of their own corporate culture, they keep driving themselves deeper into their legal hole -- when they could instead be making a reasonable case that the government's proposed remedies are full of holes.
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