[TriLUG] Ford Drops Windows for their Sync System

[William Sutton]

Netscape -- polluted their own codebase so badly that they opened it up to 
open source developers to clean up the mess.  they scrapped it and made 
Mozilla, now Firefox, which has itself become a bloated mess.
WordPerfect -- quality product that Novell bears some additional 
responsibility for killing

I'll also toss Borland out there.  People I know who used Borland's 
compilers tell me they were superior to Microsoft... but Borland's long 
been out of that business.

William Sutton

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:38:03 -0800 (PST)
> John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I do not want anyone to confuse this as anti-windows, because I am
>> rooting for them to straighten out. I learned on Windows and it was
>> the low cost alternative of computing in the 1980's. I am just making
>> objective observations to drive my predictions. Microsoft is more
>> vulnerable than anytime I have ever seen. The winds of change are in
>> the air. New CEO and Bill Gates becoming an active member again. The
>> decisions in the next year or two will be interesting. 
>
> I would like nothing better than for Microsoft to go bankrupt. Before
> we all don our "life's a technocracy and I just use the best technology
> for the task at hand" hats, consider the destruction Microsoft has done
> to the marketplace:
>
> * DR DOS: What could it have become?
> * Netscape: What could it have become?
> * Wordperfect: What could it have become?
> * Proven guilty of illegal antitrust behavior
> * Microsoft's Allchin, Mundie and Balmer calling for congressional help
>  in squelching Linux
> * Secure boot, especially non-removable secure boot in ARM machines
> * Lots more dirty tricks I can't even remember
>
> When Microsoft won in the marketplace, they didn't win with a better
> product, better prices, or better service. They won with monopolistic
> dirty tricks. Microsoft is a dangerous company, apparently to their
> very core, originating from Gates, and I fervently hope they either go
> bankrupt or become a niche player. Open Source will be safer when that
> happens.
>
> SteveT
>
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