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To: jwright who wrote (28900)	11/11/1999 9:16:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello Jimmy, As I have a great deal of respect for your talents and abilities, I also did not intend to pull you into the fray. As I noted, you caught me off-guard when you replied, as my intention was to try and get some people to wake up to the realities of the software world. I had even stated that I knew of a specific instance where APIs were not documented and released by Microsoft, but I wanted to try and make people aware that this is not unique in the industry. I hoped that someone would speak up from a position of knowledge and fact. As you have written in your post, the creation and proper documenting of an API is a resource intensive task. My intention is not to fault anyone, or try to say someone is better or worse at it ... it's just to make it clear that this is very common in the industry ... especially at the break-neck pace that everyone is pushing. Engineers are not often given the time anymore ... In all of this discussion, it seems that people want to point at Microsoft and simply talk about all the bad and evil things that they do, and have done. But I don't, and won't, agree. I will still say that there are some inevitable things in life ... and one of them is that this is going to happen again at some point in the future ... It's amazing to me that with each leap-frog of "technology" we (as a society) have created these giant companies with our consumption of their products. The "technology" of petroleum - Standard Oil ... the "technology" of communications - AT&T ... the "technology" of data processing - IBM (well ... almost!) ... and now the "technology" of personal computing - Microsoft ... I just keep looking at the situation, trying to determine if there is any way to identify the next "technology" and who the future "monopoly" will be ... I figure it will be a good stock investment! Scott C. Lemon