Re: Microsoft Systems Journal

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:28:29 -0500 (EST), Mitch Stone wrote:

 [Snip]
>
>But allow me to pose the tough question: who cares? Who really cares?
>
>Software developers are willing to put up with it, and so are the 
>majority of consumers. Microsoft can afford to incriminate themselves, 
>because few in the professional developer community or the general public 
>really care whether their technology is useful and well crafted, or 
>dysfunctional and badly constructed. For the time being, I'm sorry to 
>say, Microsoft is "giving 'em what they want," and not a farthing more.


     I wouldn't say they're giving them what they want, but they *ARE*
giving them exactly what they demand.

 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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