Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:44:43 -0400 From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>, Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <35634ECB.C95AC254@3skel.com> References: <20153.895680408@time.cdrom.com>
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The problem here is not what Microsoft has been able to take advantage of in the past. In nature and economics voids are filled, usually by the opportunistic. We may deserve to be here, but I don't. Neither do the millions of people who had mostly nothing to do with the root of the problem. Yes, strategy and corporate stupidity of the past is to blame. Now that the world has become computerized and networked as it is, people and entities that didn't realize what this all meant are waking up to reality. You can't damn a civilization to eternal suffering because the computer industry of the 80's and early 90's was too stupid to know what was going on. When these things happen, the government, and the law, is the last stop on the road to damnation. It may be synthetic, but we have to make some opportunity to move on to a better world of computing. All the great monopolies of the past took their opportunities, made lots of money and cemented a strangle hold in their industries. This is no different. Dan Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > So what is your suggestion on how should the DOJ treat Microsoft business > > pratice? > ... > So, rather than investing a lot of time and energy into building > better and better software engines, like the Unix crowd is doing, Bill > focuses instead on the "outer shell", that 10% of the software were > the user spends 90% of their time, and puts all of his resources into > improving the man/machine interface on *commodity hardware*. This is > a key point which Apple missed - they got the man/machine bit very > right then screwed up by trying to mate it exclusively to proprietary > hardware - a mistake which M$ had already made and learned from > earlier and didn't need to repeat. > > Again, Microsoft made some tactical mistakes along the way but their > overall strategy was exactly the right one for making a lot of money > and that's exactly what they did. The rest of us just watched and > thought, with our engineering minds, how silly these Microsoft people > were for making all these tactical blunders and we never really > focused on what the overall strategy was supposed to be, hell, I don't > think any of us wanted to even _think_ about strategy - we were having > just too much fun playing with all this new tech. > > So, I look at M$ today and I'm naturally saddened by the kind of > software that 80% of the world now has to live with, but who do I > blame for this? Us. Only us. We let it happen and now we're > complaining, far after the fact, that somebody ought to protect us > from the big bad wolf we ourselves let into the house. Bah! How is > that people are so frickin' BLIND? > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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