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Re: Comes: Gates, Maritz, Myhrvold and Allchin Attack Standards (Full Text, PLEX0_2658)


After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> From:  Bill Gates
> Sent:  Wednesday, February 19, 1997 9:46 AM
> To:  Jim Allchin (Exchange)
> CC:  Nathan Myhrvold; Paul Maritz
> Subject:  RE: "Losing a Franchise - The Microsoft Windows Story" (a new Harvard
> Case Study)
>
> Cross-platform demand is not coming from statistics.  It is coming from the
> free-lunch syndrome we have allowed to develop.  All of a sudden people think
> there is no drawback to being cross platform.  No drawback in size, speed,
> interface, richness, testability.

What did Jim McCarthy, the one-time Visual C++ team lead say, in his book?

   "Portability is for canoes."

Chickens and roosts come to mind.

-- 
Fertility is hereditary.  If your parents didn't have any children,
neither will you.

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