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"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 13:12:42 +0000 (UTC), Paul Harper <paul@harper.net>
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:37:40 +0000 (UTC), "John W. Kennedy"
>><jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Carl wrote:
>>>> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:yI7gg.3677$n91.1519@fe09.lga...
>>>>> Carl wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, Gates has been too busy giving $29 Billion to charities and 
>>>>>> trying
>>>>>> to bring medicines to third world countries.  I can see where you'd 
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> looking for a 666  birthmark. :)
>>>>> Bill Gates has, almost single-handedly, brought the entire software
>>>>> industry to a screeching halt. He has ruined the careers of thousands, 
>>>>> and
>>>>> he has done it by repeated criminal acts, and by a completely lack of
>>>>> personal and business ethics.
>>>>
>>>> Nonsense.
>>>
>>>Absolute truth. I've been in the business for over 40 years, and the
>>>last ten have been absolutely stagnant.
>>
>>And I've been in it for 27 years and I have never been busier or so
>>well compensated (and no, I don't work for Microsoft, or any software
>>company for that matter).
>>
>>Have you considered the stagnation might be a rather more... local...
>>problem?
>
> It isn't. Internet Explorer is an excellent example. When Netscape is
> in business, the two companies released product after product, each
> with loads of new features. But the moment Microsoft had succeeded at
> driving Netscape out of business, they stopped all development. Not
> only did they not develop or more likely steal (since I've never seen
> them actually invent anything) any new features and technologies, they
> ignored the new ones that appeared, such as tabbed browsing and RSS.
> They even announced that Internet Explorer was a "mature technology"
> that required no improvements.

Why do you assume that MS is in the business of making a better browser for
the sake of making a better browser?  There are hooks such that others
made add-ins that would do new things and MS encouraged it.

If MS tries to make an OS (one of its core businesses) withmore features,
they get slammed as being anti-competitive.  If they decide not to add 
features
to a non-core product, they're considered evil for that too.

Quite a set of standards that have been set up. Damned if they do,
damned if they don't.

>
> Then, when Firefox became popular, MS suddenly woke up and announced a
> new version of IE. And so it goes in area after area. No one would
> even dream of building a better word processor or spreadsheet now,
> because they know that MS would use its monopoly position to drive
> them out of business.

OpenOffice is trying.  They have a ways to go, but they also have a lot
of MS hating people that are a ready to go for them.

> Software improvements have been left to niche
> companies and public groups like Mozilla.

That's great!  It allows the companies that are good at innovation to do it.
So?

> Even Apple survived only because Microsoft found it legally
> convenient to maintain the fiction of competition while it was being 
> prosecuted.

Yeah, those poor Apple people that decided they were going to close the 
platform and keep hardware prices high.

Apple wass a victim of itself as much as anything else.
                                                                               
                        
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