Re: If Windows 98 is delayed, we're all in trouble?

["John Robert BEHRMAN" <jbehrman@netropolis.net>]

Eugen,

I will take no pleasure in a Microsoft bust, especially when I do not know
of any MS competitors who will play it much differently. Pernicious
parasites who encourage the notion that software is not an engineered good
but, rather, a sort of sheet music will go on to ruin other firms. Of
course, they all, especially lawyer-lobbyists, profit nicely from the havoc
they create.

What we have is a society so full of conceit that we do not appreciate how
important the craft of logical engineering is.

Phillipe KAHN recognized the importance of craft virtues in software
development just about the time Lotus ambushed him and his defense counsel
drove him nuts and Borland very nearly into the ground.

Sad, very sad.

Bye & PLAYON JRBehrman sends.....

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Gaines <ggaines@generation.net>
To: jbehrman@netropolis.net <jbehrman@netropolis.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: If Windows 98 is delayed, we're all in trouble?


>If we are very lucky,  Mr. Gates will keep on pushing shoddy work
>built on shoddy work built on a very outdated foundation.  And it
>may collapse before he notices.  I have seen too-successful, too-
>ambitious companies do that before.