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To: Jon Tara who wrote (22)5/22/1997 9:16:00 PM
From: Terence Wilson   of 244
 
>There are so many components that are useful for so many different things, >that it would be difficult to package them all separately.

With respect Jon, OLE/ActiveX/whatever they're calling it this week, is all about standalone binary components. I agree with you that there's nothing wrong with Microsoft distributing the controls to developers as a single package, however, the current licensing agreement expressly forbids any developer distributing the common control DLL by itself (of course this rule doesn't apply to Microsoft). This makes it impossible for developers like myself to distribute their application with a single installation procedure. Consequently many developers are refusing to use the new common controls. That's why you see very few non-microsoft apps that make use of the fancy schmancy common controls.

Long arguments have been waged on USENET on the issue we discuss and people seem to be in one of two camps:

1) MS wrote the stuff, they can do what they want.
2) MS is trying to shove IE down our throats. This is another example
of anti-competetive behaviour.

As it I said ealier, my main beef is that I have to force potential users
of my software to download a wopping 5M file as well as my own
download. Whereas if I'd chosen to use a different browser I could
have simply included that browser's DLL. On balance, I think I made
the right choice since eventually IE will come with the O.S., and no-one
ever got fired for buying/using Microsoft.
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