Mang, re:"Window CE is NOT an open standard..."
Hi Mang,
Thank you for your response.
Open to me means that there are enough tools for third parties to write to the interface... that seems to be the case.
Sun, AOL, Netscape, RedHat... they are offering competing standards.
Competition and openness are mutually exclusive.
Also, forgive me if I presume, but do you think that any other corporation with a standard will be more "open"? Or that somehow one corporation is more benevolent than another? Me?... Benevolence and publicly traded, profit making corporations is an oxymoron. Sun, AOL, RedHat hope they could protect their competitive standard as well as Microsoft has... but I don't think you will see the PR spin cover that.
Also, I think more than one standard is good, but very hard to establish against a paranoid, quick entrenched leader.
Unlike the 70's and 80's where you had leaders like IBM who were so sloth like that the little guys like Apple and Microsoft took market share and created standards without a fight.
Just my competivive-analysis opinion.
Jon :) |
