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| DATE | 2003-08-17 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] IBM, Bankers at Odds Over OS/2 Migration Path
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On 2003.08.17 07:37 Sunny Dubey wrote:
>
> On Sunday 17 August 2003 01:27 am, you wrote:
> > Because the government is still watching them. They had every
> > intention to do so otherwise and are growing slowly bolder
> > as the move from the anti-trust case.
>
> The would never do so because ....
>
> It would break hundreds of billions of dollars in software. This would hurt
> poor countries attempting to modernize, and come under criticism by the
> UN/ICJ.
>
They've made such breaks before (in fact periodically) and they actually planned to
do this with passport, and C#. They had no bones about it and what their plans were
for networked programming.
> It would break their own software pretty badly and cause an internal mess
> within the microsoft organization itself. (MSFT sure loves to break things,
> but not to that extent.)
Oh yes they do. The have broken things this badly from OLE, the ActivX, and not to C#.
And it's been profitable for them every time. This would be a minimal break because they've
seded the OS for 2 years now with all the pieces. Your position is that, they can do this but
are too sensible to attempt it. I see no evidence to support this in my observations of Microsoft
over the last 30 years. They have repeatedly been agressive, reckless, and often manevolent.
Ruben
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