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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-20 12:53:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!hub1.nntpserver.com!telocity-west!TELOCITY!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: RE: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:53:30 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:53:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18172 Date: 2001-12-20T20:53:30+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. says... >One of the major reasons for Microsoft's success is the technical >incompetence of its competitors. First they were dumb enough to try to beat Microsoft certainly likes to spread this story (check their anti-trust arguments sometimes). But I'm not really enamored of any theory that depends on there being some kind of mass incompetence between large amounts of diverse organizations and individuals who have no connection to each other (according to the theory) but coincidental ones. For one thing, it doesn't make a very good theory, scientificly, as there are no predictions one can make from it to test it. For instance, lets take the alternative theory that everyone is equally (in)compentent, but that everything's basicly a crap shoot. Whenever you talk about gambling, in the long run the odds favor the party with the most money. This theory would predict that if any software company were to get in a dominant financial position, it could just outlast anyone it competes with because it will have the resources to survive blunders that will take down the lesser companies. This theory may not be fully correct, but at least it explains *why* the winners and losers are who they are, and gives you something you can draw testable conculsions from. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.