Re: Crippled Products and the IE Question

[Paul Crowley <paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk>]

Tod Landis <landis@cruzio.com> writes:
> Incidentally, making modules so dependent on one another, the way
> that Microsoft does, is a bad practice.

This simple fact of software engineering is what Microsoft hope to
hide with their use of the word "integration".  Well-designed software
has always been made up of separable components, such that you could
replace one component with a different vendor's version and, so long
as it conforms to the same standards, the whole should keep working.
If it isn't standards based, it's not "integration", it's lock-in.

The non-technical market thinks "integration" is a buzz-word.  We need
to explain to them that integration, Microsoft-style, is a *bad* thing.
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