Re: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released)

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Excellent point! Even with absolute control over their own product, they
couldn't stop it from diverging! Sort of the "Tower of Babel" all over
again. Internally, you have a community of programmers (& managers) who
aren't going to be nice little robots all performing in lock-step ballet
with each other. For business reasons and probably also for turf-wars,
protection of feifdoms, etc., multiple paths evolved. Maybe you can exercise
more discipline over the programmers & managers internally than you could
over a widespread group of OSS developers - but still, managing programmers
is like hearding cats... :-)

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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <9d6i89$3nf$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
> >While there are potential problems with Open Source Software (divergence,
>
> I had to laugh when they raised that issue. How many different "Windows"
OS's
> does Microsoft have floating around now? At least 4, no matter how you
count.
> Just about any serious Windows app has to have some code somewhere that
detects
> the Windows version and does completely different things depending on
which one
> it is. One good example is trying to get see if a certain program is
running.
> There's an API for it in 9x. With NT you have to do a series of convoulted
> real-time registry lookups (which won't work on 9x).
>
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