[ale] OT: newsflash: Microsoft is still the devil...open source beware

[Randy Ramsdell]

Jonathan Rickman wrote:
>
>
> On 8/1/07, *Randy Ramsdell* <rramsdell at livedatagroup.com
> <mailto:rramsdell at livedatagroup.com>> wrote:
>
>     Good point as you know more than I about how JAVA broke in my case
>     because none of the other brokers could even come close to a solution
>     except to say that I must use microsoft's JAVA implementation. Isn't
>     that, in effect, the subtle technical error that might be the
>     goal. One
>     does not have to completely break compatibility, only make it
>     difficult
>     to work around, either by misinformation or play on the masses
>     desire to
>     just simply use their products instead of fix all the
>     compatibility issues.
>
>  
> So is it your assertion that Microsoft forced the brokerage to use
> Visual Studio to develop applications using extensions that everybody
> and his uncle knew were limited to certain VM implementations? Or is
> your anger somehow misplaced? Does Microsoft have a division
> consisting of armed thugs that travel around to various businesses and
> force them to use their software at gunpoint? Do they fly in in black
> helicopters? If I agree to use their software, do you think they'll
> let me go for a ride in one?
>  
> The point here is that emotional arguments are frequently devoid of
> fact and logic, and do nothing to further the cause of the person
> presenting them. In some cases it can even backfire. Sometimes the
> worst enemy of a message is the messenger.
> --
> Jonathan
>
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Hmmm. No. Read the above article regarding JAVA.