Re: Crippled Products and the IE Question

[Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>]

Yes.  Exactly so.  Even Microsoft preaches this gospel in its OLE/COM
stuff.
That's what's so sick about their legal pleading...

Paul Crowley wrote:

> 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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