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Try reading again ? Microsoft didn't architect their software as software, they shaped it as tools of monopoly enforcement. There are numerous accounts from p
by phkamp 14y ago
Try reading again ?
Microsoft didn't architect their software as software, they shaped it as tools of monopoly enforcement.
There are numerous accounts from people involved about how marketing decisions relating to cutting of 3rd parties or trying to bludgon somebody into submission caused them to cripple their own software and its architecture.
See the evidence in the M$/Novell case for ironclad evidence of this.
- LaGrange 14y agoActually, the amusing thing is you're still reinforcing the cathedral metaphor. If the primary target of the cathedral was an event hall capable of housing a bunch of people it could have been built in a way more reasonable way. The point of cathedral is to be the biggest and most impressive kid on the block. Therefore I'd say that MS was designed in a cathedral way to achieve cathedral goal.
- cooldeal 14y agoM$? Really? I thought HN and seasoned OSS developers were above this kind of petty name calling and sneering.
- phkamp 14y agoYou know, first time I encountered the "M$" shorthand was in a TELEX (look it up if you don't know what that is) from Commodore Corporate about pricing of the the PC10 computer. I have used it ever since, based in part on what was not very diplomatically expressed in that missive about M$'s attitude to licensing.
- paulhauggis 14y agoas long as I can use the term I coined: "open shit"
- LaGrange 14y agoActually, the proper traditional way to insult Open Source is "Open Sores". Use that and the feeling I got during flame wars between high schoolers on IRC channels in the late nineties will be complete.
- josephcooney 14y agoA friend of mine is really big on the term "freetard" for open source software.
- schrototo 14y ago> a TELEX (look it up if you don't know what that is) This kind of passive-aggressiveness only reinforces the grumpy-old-man stereotype and makes it really hard to take you seriously.
- zevyoura 14y agoJust because you read it a long time ago doesn't make it less petty or silly.
- mcguire 14y agoI hate to point this out, but that is just one of the benefits of the cathedral model: you get to inject alternate agendas into the project. The more bazaar-like a development model is, the less outside priorities factor in.