[ale] Object Model on Linux (fwd)

[R I Feigenblatt]

Charles Hubbard wrote:

>NOT at the GUI.  Sharing information on a GUI level is far from acceptable.
        A visible proxy is not always the best, but most people are
        HIGHLY visually oriented, making vision metaphors powerful.

>the point where programmers don't need THOUSANDS of DLLs and don't need
        I love hyperbole. Personally I would hope Microsoft could
        help us manage DLL VERSIONS better.
 
>ideas.  It's time we pass this onto the user, and provide these mechanisms
>to him so that he could "build" what he needs from components.

        Maybe I don't understand who you mean by user. There are a RANGE
        of users and some need to be told not to run with scissors!
        (An ACTUAL "Tip Of The Day" from Microsoft Word! LOL)

>Besides the obvious problems with Micro$oft they have NEVER invented anything 
>that has had a major impact in the computer industry.  Now I'm not talking

        Some people never get over the fact that restaurants and
        supermarkets don't grow food. Me, I'd rather Microsoft acquire
        Vermeer and sell me Frontpage discounted to about $100, (free
        if I use NT as my server) than buy it from Vermeer at $695.
        The problem with too many firms is good-old NIH (Not Invented
        Here), where an entreched Nomenkatura betrays the interests
        of a firm and the customers it serves by making sure assuring
        their "job security". You might sneer at Gateway 2000 as "mere"
        computer assemblers if you like, too.

>with very little competition, and egomaniacs like Jobs never really tried
>to compete with them.  That's why Scully fired him.
        Well, while I lack extensive first-hand contact with him,
        I have heard that Jobs would not win Miss Congeniality.
        But he says "I would rather win than be right." And so
        there was Mr. Jobs, net value $1 billion plus, joining
        Microsoft's internet technology rollout on World Wide
        Live this summer. Not too proud to do business there.
        Anyway, now Jobs will be back at Apple. Give Apple credit
        for looking outside itself for answers to its problmes.

>Look at Apple.  They broke the 64K barrier.  They created one of the first
        I never denied Apple the honor of has-been.

>created, orchestrated, and stole better ideas than Bill Gates ever has.
        Farmers don't give milk. Cows do. A good farmer uses cows well.

>Micro$oft is still in a browser war with Netscape because they didn't get
>on the internet bandwagon soon enough.  While Apple is off doing it's thing
        Microsoft is a great company because it corrects mistakes, rather
        than pretending the emperor has clothes like so many others. If
        you "make no mistakes", you are probably not trying enough stuff.
        As regards the Web, let me quote Bellcore luminary Robert Lucky:
                "I am fascinated by the World Wide Web [and] am
                much sobered by the fact that no one predicted its
                occurance... it seems to me almost a case study in
                chaos theory."
        Mr. Hubbard might like to remind us about Apple's Hypercard, as
        well as Vannevar Bush's prescient 1946? article "As We May Think".

Ron Feigenblatt