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All business is a variation on this. If you're wanting to be a business person in a "nice" world where its not all about manipulation and sleight of hand then
by hoodoof 9y ago
All business is a variation on this. If you're wanting to be a business person in a "nice" world where its not all about manipulation and sleight of hand then you can do that but you won't be mega successful.
Read up on Bill Gates Windows license contracts that the hardware manufacturers had to sign .... genius.
Truth is all in how you tell the story.
- carapace 9y agoI remember the day a friend explained to me that MS Word, Internet Explorer, and MS Frontpage were the same DLL just with different entry points.
- throwaway613834 9y agoWhat? That seems both wrong and meaningless. You can compile as many programs as you want into a single DLL. Doesn't mean a thing.
- carapace 9y agoIt wasn't N programs packed into a DLL, it was one program (in a DLL) that acted like three different programs depending on how it was "started". They were selling the same software as three different products.
- throwaway613834 9y agoYou consider MS Word and Internet Explorer in the same DLL to be "the same software" rather than 3 different pieces of software packed in the same DLL?
- carapace 9y agoI'm just telling HN what my friend told me. It's not as if I've ever examined the file, y'know?
- _ah 9y agoYour friend was lying to you. Source: I'm a former MSFT employee, and I've spent WAY too much time working in the Office codebase.