Re: RE: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada)

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Little guys can afford to make little mistakes. Big guys can afford to make
big mistakes. I understand how their size & wealth have enabled them to
survive some bad product decisions, etc. But if they didn't have some
enormously big successes (which means they must be doing *something* right!)
they wouldn't have the cash cows out there to make up for the marketing
flops and tactical blunders.

I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but I will admit that they do manage to do some
things pretty well from time to time. Sometimes us techies look at what they
do and see the technical flaws and say "Microsoft is a bunch of boneheads".
The problem is that the object of the game is not to make good software -
its to make money for the stockholders. That they seem to do reasonably
well.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <9vtkbe$kth$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
> Not exactly. I was talking about *chance*, not luck. There is a subtle
> difference. Luck favors no one. Chance favors the party that can keep
playing
> longest (as they are less likely to go bankrupt first). Microsoft has had
as
> many disasters as anyone else, if you care to look into it. Anyone
remember
> "Bob"? How about version 1.0 of about anything they have ever released?
They
> just have a huge bankroll, and a really good cash cow behind it, that lets
them
> survive disasters that would lay anyone else low.
>