DOJ-States Attorneys General gang up on msft, my take:
All these states have constituents complaining about msft.
The powers that be have to do something, or at least look
like their doing something to get re-elected, thus this current
action. Nothing, or very little at most will come of this, but
at least the politicians driving this will look good to their
constituency.
The little software companies are the biggest whiners. From
a survival stand point I can't blame them. From a user's point
of view, I say #@!'m. I deal with so much shitty software from
small companies that msft would not dare to even call beta, that
I have virtually no sympathy. Small companies patent support
refrain 'it works on my machine'.
Personally, I'd like to see the DOJ step in to set some minimum
quality standards on software. I think little companies are getting
away with murder because all the attention is on msft. They get
to release pure crap, and then blame msft for failing. This will
change eventually.
In the mid eighties did msft go to the DOJ and say 'waaa Lotus
won't let us compete' 'waaa wordperfect won't let us compete'
'waaa IBM's building OS2 and we can't compete'..., etc
And for the record, msft has not been able to beat Oracle
or Quicken.
***see, It can be done. The question is, can you code or not?
FWIW, when IBM and MSFT were working together, the IBM
coders were evaluated on the volume of code they typed -- blocks
I think is what they called it...., very absurd. OS/2 deserved to die.
The only thing that might/should happen is for msft to get cut
back on it's 'tying' practices, where if you want this you have to
take that. There might be a little of this to come out of the latest
action, but nothing more.
MSFT sells great code. Perhaps because they recruit from the
top 3-5% of Ivy league schools? Perhaps NT is great because
it's architect was one of the orignal designers of VMS?? Perhaps
msft is successfull because it is ran as a series of small business
units that sometimes compete with each other and are individually
accountable?
**naaa, must be because Bill's beating up on everyone, and their
coders are sabotaging everyone else.., yeah, that must be it.
msft is not getting broken up. In 5-10 years we'll talk. For now, it's
time to buy more msft, while the fear is rampant.
cheers,
-Kevin
PS. If you don't like Windows, please get a Mac! or if you're
really goofy, get an OS/2 machine.
PPS. Apologies for not responding to any psychobable rants/replies. |
