[Am-info] Re: MS and software

[sturde@az.com]

In <20020620135900.32194.26546.Mailman@venice.essential.org>, on 06/20/02 
   at 09:59 AM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:

>"A Microsoft attorney, Dan Webb of Chicago, denounced the states'
>proposals as a raid on Microsoft's copyrighted software designs that
>would stifle the company's incentive to create products, and lambasted
>the proposed requirement of a stripped-down version of Windows as one
>that would ''force Windows off the market'' because it is not possible,
>as a matter of software engineering, to create such a product."

I have two clients.  One during 1995-1996 wrote a 3-D software package and
lived in Redmond and was developing a business.  MS put him out of
business when it put 3-D software into its code that as usual could not be
removed.

Another works in the same area.  2/3rds of the time MS servers.  The rest
Sun server.  As he put it, the Sun is a whole different universe.

He worked for another company.  It hired a junior college graduate at
$9.00 an hour, trained in the MS program.  He trained him and then it
fired him.

 
James Sturdevant


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