[Am-info] Maybe I've been wrong...

[Mitch Stone]

On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 09:46 PM, Sujal Shah wrote:

[snip]

> Besides, there are already software models and examples (even within
> Microsoft, for cripes sake) of mix and match core components... Codecs
> within the media players, for example.  Any database product.  Plug-ins
> for things like audio, video, and graphics software (think cakewalk or
> photoshop).  All those things have "mix and match" middle components...
> I don't understand why no one is reporting that fact...

In fact Windows is the exception to this rule, not the rule itself. Once 
again Microsoft is, in the course of "defending" its practices, providing 
the most damning evidence against them.

In his latest column Robert X. Cringely refers to Ballmer as "a very smart 
guy." I hardly think anyone with even the tiniest sense of propriety would 
make these remarks, and propriety is at least one measure of intelligence.
  Ballmer has been drinking at the Redmond well for so long, he probably 
genuinely believes that the rest of the world is completely credulous.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020307.html

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com