Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ 7 ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 17:47 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Verizon takes over Microsoft TV code
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Unhappy over the memory footprint of applications and delays in
>>> | rolling them out, Verizon has ditched some of Microsoft's television
>>> | software and has chosen instead to write its own.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060914-7742.html
>>>
>>> Also:
>>>
>>> FiOS TV and MSFT: When End-to-End Becomes Best of Breed
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Quoting: "With the project in danger of running behind schedule,
>>> | Verizon sent its own employees to oversee the work between Microsoft
>>> | and Motorola. Engineers from all three companies had several meetings
>>> | a day to nudge the project along. Eventually, Verizon took over the
>>> | development of the program guide altogether from Microsoft, and ended
>>> | up writing a new version of the software that was less
>>> | memory-intensive."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/laszlo/archives/017055.html
>>
>>
>> Why bother writing own software?
>> KnopMyth runs Myth TV and some modifications of that can get them
>> all they want.
>
> ...Exactly what I thought...
>
> But they are Verizon. Better keep nasty companies out of freely-available
> and resusable code. Verizon is, after all, said to be among the forces
> which strive to close our Internet, which is a necessity for exchange of
> code, knowledge and information that deviates from financially-biased
> distributions (e.g. local word of mouth, salesmen, Fox, NTY).
Sounds like shareholders need to be puking all over
the board room to get rid of a few nasty board room idiots
persuing fandagly business crapola theories outside of
shareholder interests. Thats what I would do.
If you can't work with the tools to hand, then perhaps
you need employment elsewhere.
The last thing I would want to see is a competitor bolting
to the market with the same tools with the same ideas and then for our
company to be forced into putting out a me too vapourware PR release
to cover our ass.
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