Do SPA Guidelines Attack Microsoft? techweb.com
And vice versa, of course.
But four member companies almost immediately attacked the principles, calling them a "thinly veiled slap" at Microsoft's success. . . .
The most vocal critic was ChiliSoft, a development company based in Bellevue, Washington. "ChiliSoft does not support the SPA's newfound role and its attack on Microsoft," said Mickey Friedman, the company's marketing vice president. "We do not feel it is appropriate for a neutral organization to take position in a matter of law and politics." ChiliSoft also announced it would withdraw from the SPA as a result of the guidelines' publication
Officials of Visio, based in Seattle, Wash., also took aim at the SPA's document. "The published principles are a thinly veiled slap at a single SPA member: Microsoft," said Ted Johnson, a Visio executive vice president. "The SPA should be representing the views of its membership on genuinely important industry issues like encryption and piracy, not positioning itself as judge and jury against one of its most successful members."
Seattle-based Mabry Software and New York's Sheridan Systems also joined in the criticism of SPA's document.
Interesting. There seems to be some locality of reference here, except for these Sheridan guys. I got to look them up, they sound familiar too. There couldn't be a certain . . . orchestration going on could there? There couldn't possibly have been a few local calls made in the Greater Seattle area? No, no, these "independent" software vendors are just stating the TRUTH.
Cheers, Dan.
P.S. A quick search at techweb turned up this on sheridan:
Give Your Apps an Office 97 Look and Feel techweb.com
Consequently, Sheridan Software offers the ActiveListBar, an ActiveX implementation of the Outlook Bar concept. Compressed in a CAB file, it's only 138KB-quite reasonable as a download.
So, there you go. Another truly independent vendor obviously dedicated to a diverse and "open" software universe. |
