-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
____/ 7 on Saturday 27 December 2008 14:01 : \____
>
>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> This was never posted in COLA, but someone has just found it...
>>
>> - ---------------------------
>>
>> - ---original message---
>> From: Bill Gates
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 1997 10:34 AM
>> To: Paul Maritz; Brad Sliverberg
>> Cc: Nathan Myhrvold; Aaron Conforer; Jim Allchin (Exchange); John Ludwig;
>> Richard Fade; Jon DeVaan;~ Steven Sinofsky
>> Subject HTML. Opervieec
>>
>> There has recently been an exchange on email with people in the Office
>> group about Office and HTML.
>>
>> In one piece of mail people were suggesting that Office had to work
>> equally well with all browsers and that we shouldn?t force Office users to
>> use our browser. This Is wrong and I wanted to correct this.
>>
>> Another suggestion In this mail was that we can?t make our own unilateral
>> extensions to HTML I was going to say this was wrong and correct this
>> also.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> - ---------------------------
>>
>> Bill Gates... what a 'nice' guy.
>
>
> This would have broken anti-trust laws and a lot of browsers too.
> Its the failure yet again of regulators to separate OS maker from
> application maker - i.e. split micoshaft.
>
> Classic example of deep corruption within governments and regulatory
> cicles and its always the consumer that suffers.
Bear in mind that my resentment is fueled by knowledge that I have and other
people don't bother with. Microsoft is a PR machine; you /must/ look
underneath.
Of relevance to many companies (someone in IRC brought them up along with the
PDF from the courts):
"I have decided that we should not publish these extensions. We should wait
until we have a way to so a high level of integration that will be harder for
the likes of Notes, Wordperfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real
advantage."
--Bill Gates
"We should design some of our extensions explicitly so that IBM can't run them
under OS/2. We need to put real thinking into this."
--Bill Gates
Here is some real code from MS-DOS (shown in Comes vs MS):
/********************************************************
*DisplayAlienDosMessage
*
*Purpose:
* Displays a warning message if the user is running
* a non MS or IBM PC DOS machine (Le. pirated DOS). C.)
* Returns:
* none
********************************************************
int near DisplayA1ienDosMessage(void)
{
print(9,TAE,”WARNING: Microsoft QuickPascal has been tested for use”);
print(lO,TAB,‘only with the MS-DOS and PC-DOS operating systems.”);
print(12,TAB,’Your use of this product with another operating system");
print(13,TAB,’may void valuable warranty protection provided by”);
print(14,TAB,”Mlcrosoft on QuickPascal.’);
print(16,TAB,”...Press any key to continue’);
getch();
return(1);
}
/***
*main - setup's main
*Purpose:
* main code for setup. Initialize stuff and do the setup.
*
*Entry:
* argC, argV as in ‘the bible” (K&R)
*Exit:
* void, note that setup exits from “terminate" not main.
*******************************************************************
/ void NEAR main ( argC, argV )
int argC;
unsigned char *argV [];
{
extern ME1~4U contMaiu;
extern unsigned char sDrive; // set if sourcedir non-
default
int retVal;
unreferenced (argC);
InitVideo();
.
if (!Verify_DOS ();
DisplayAlienDosMessage ();
if (argV[O](1)==’:’) // don’t assume
drive A:
sDrive = (unsigned char) toupper(*argv[O]);
JnitDefOptions ();
if(GrabMemory())
{
retVal = DoThatStateThing ();
ReleaseMemory Q;
}
else
(
ppszErrLns= ppszErrTable [ OUTOFMEM ];
AlertState ( &contMenu, 1.2, dispGenErr);
retVal = rv_JtJSTEXIT;
}
terminate (retVal); // exits setup}
}
- --
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Apache: commercial software's days are numbered
http://Schestowitz.com | RHAT Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
15:20:01 up 72 days, 23:38, 2 users, load average: 0.75, 0.82, 0.83
http://iuron.com - Open Source knowledge engine project
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAklWSEgACgkQU4xAY3RXLo4d/gCfU47zJSvXhLK3VnLF713X8141
dIMAmwSqgQbs7XurgoEnmw2+r4P2v3W7
=Jky2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
