Re: uninstallation

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

In reply to P.A. Petricone's message sent 1/26/98 8:08 PM:

>Once again, Mitch, where is there a reference to one single standard?

When I read your statement: "That conflict would not have even taken 
place when it did were there not global analog video standards for them 
to rely on," I presumed you were alluding to a single standard.

>For consumers, NTSC is US, Japan Korea and some other rim countries, SECAM -
>France and some of it's territories, PAL, elsewhere. There are a number of
>studio standards and variants along with relatively simple ways to translate
>from one to the other without fiddling with DLLs or INITS. Consumer systems
>are available that utilize all three, if you need it.
>
>Enough with this, what is your problem with standard setting?

None, so long as it is not a proprietary, monopolizing standard, which is 
what we have today in computing. As an amateur technofile of long 
standing, I am also uncomfortable with declaring as complex and poorly 
constructed a technology as Windows a standard, even assuming it could be 
"opened up." As I said earlier, this would be as if the auto industry in 
1920 had declared the Model-T to be the "standard" car, an option that 
might have seemed warranted due to its overwhelming popularity at the 
time. Like the auto industry in 1920, the computer industry today has a 
long, long, way to go before it matures. I want to see it go there 
unimpeded by artificially constructed barriers.


   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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