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: 2001-12-21 06:53:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!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: <9vtkbe$kth$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: RE: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:53:08 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:53:08 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18199 Date: 2001-12-21T14:53:08+00:00 List-Id: In article <9vtkbe$kth$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >Luck probably has a lot to do with it. But then, you've got to do a lot of >practice to be standing at the plate during the World Series when that >easy-to-hit pitch comes your way by "luck". > >Sure, Microsoft has been "lucky". (Whenever someone else wins and I don't, >its *always* because of luck! :-) Bill Gates got lucky that IBM, et alia, 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. Whenever they enter a new market, you can think of them as like the Russians in World War II. Sure their equipment starts out below par, and they may not even know what they are doing until they are in it for a while. But, unlike their enemies, they can loose whole armies and hardly feel it. --- 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.