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- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- To: Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@geotempo.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:57:52 -0700
> Come on Microsoft, get it right. The message we get is not "oh we are
> looking after the problems that customers report rather than niceties"
> (which no-one believes)
Certainly not those customers, such as myself, who have
reported problems that remain unfixed. (Not just XML.)
> but "we do not have a craftsmanlike attitude to
> making our products correct".
Do you remember the furor caused by Bill Gates saying
that Microsoft doesn't revise products to fix bugs?
Back a few years ago.
It died down too quickly. One translation is your second
one above. Another is that for the same reasons Win95/Win98
are bug-for-bug compatible with key MS-DOS releases, they
feel they dare not fix certain bugs. Yet another is that
they don't want to, because its money they can use their
monopoly power to avoid spending -- which enhances customer
lockin, while shifting damage control costs to customers and
to competitors (increasing profits in at least three ways).
I strongly believe that in the world of Open Standards,
the standards to be concerned with should _never_ be the
set of bugs in some proprietary (monopoly) product. That
is after all one of the original motivations to have such
standards -- to keep the playing field open and level!!
- Dave
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