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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 27 June 2006 13:58 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> That's just one take on the issue...
>>>
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>>>| Every comment (bar one) got the point. WinFS is dead. Its carcass is
>>>| being split between SQL Server and ADO.NET, and the relational
>>>| filesystem that was going to change the way we use computers is no
>>>| longer just postponed to be shipped after Vista, it's gone.
>>>|
>>>| [...]
>>>|
>>>| The other irony is that in this chapter, Cringely describes how these
>>>| tactics, while disrupting their competitors, ended up losing IBM
>>>| various segments of the PC market, losing them the respect and trust of
>>>| their customers. Which sort of takes this blog-post full-circle: in the
>>>| absence of an honest voice admitting fault, you're left with the
>>>| immortal words of John Lydon: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/06/25/we_come_to_bury_winfs
>>
>> This particular bit is quite interesting:
>>
>> Microsoft, on the other hand, are the massive incumbent with a
>> reputation (deserved or otherwise) for producing reasonably good
>> copies of the innovations of others. In chapter 14 of Accidental
>> Empires, Robert X. Cringely describes five techniques a large
>> incumbent can use to control the market:
>>
>> 1. Announce a direction, not a product (people will put off
>> buying competing products because you've just told them they're
>> the old way of doing things).
>>
>> 2. Announce a real product, but do so long before you actually
>> expect to deliver, disrupting the market for competing products
>> that are already shipping.
>>
>> 3. Don't announce a product, but do leak a few strategic hints,
>> even if they aren't true.
>>
>> 4. Don't support anybody else's standards; make your own.
>>
>> 5. Announce a product, then say you don't really mean it.
>>
>> As noted in the blog entry, the original description was of IBM, but
>> it's very interesting to note just how much MS learnt from IBM in this
>> area (basically, everything).
>
> They say that when Bill Gates began everything (jointly with Allen), he was
> determined to beat the IBM monopoly. In turn, he became _just like them_.
> It's like kids who said they would never be like my parents, but after a few
> decades they become [pause /] _their parents_! This reminds me of the
> following statement, which was made by RMS:
>
> "Mr. Gates' secret is out now?he too was a "communist;" he, too, recognized
> that software patents were harmful?until Microsoft became one of these
> giants..."
>
> http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+other+communists/2010-1071_3-5576230.html?part=rss&tag=5575731&subj=news.1071.20
>
I recall RMS writing this, and it's a very fair observation. It must be
necessary to not have a conscience to be able to do what Mr Gates does,
especially when it comes to stuffing poor people.
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