From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-07 11:48:09 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!194.25.134.62!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newscore.gigabell.net!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:32:25 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9d6pnr$6a6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9d6dmc$24v$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9d6i89$3nf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 989260347 6470 136.170.200.133 (7 May 2001 18:32:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 May 2001 18:32:27 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7280 Date: 2001-05-07T18:32:27+00:00 List-Id: Excellent point! Even with absolute control over their own product, they couldn't stop it from diverging! Sort of the "Tower of Babel" all over again. Internally, you have a community of programmers (& managers) who aren't going to be nice little robots all performing in lock-step ballet with each other. For business reasons and probably also for turf-wars, protection of feifdoms, etc., multiple paths evolved. Maybe you can exercise more discipline over the programmers & managers internally than you could over a widespread group of OSS developers - but still, managing programmers is like hearding cats... :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:xSAJ6.4705$vg1.368306@www.newsranger.com... > 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). > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com