Welcome to the Breaking-Windows mail list. First some groundrules, and then a question. 1. What's on-topic for this mail list? Microsoft. 2. Assume that...
Dave Winer
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Jul 21, 2001 4:44 pm
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David, A friend passed me your book and I found it very interesting. Congrats on an excellent job. I wonder if you'd like to tell us what you think your book...
Talking Moose
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Jul 21, 2001 6:23 pm
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Larry Lessig has an interesting piece in the latest Industry Standard. (The Limits Of Credibility: Microsoft got beat fair and square. ...
Bank, David
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Jul 23, 2001 6:34 pm
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Thank you for such a great book, David. The book is so revealing that it qualifies as a public service. :-) It has, as Dave Weiner said, opened my eyes. I...
David G. Goggin
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Jul 27, 2001 12:24 pm
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... I don't think we disagree. I argued in the book that in many ways "the trial was the remedy," in that, with Microsoft's hands tied, many of its erstwhile...
david.bank@...
Jul 31, 2001 8:43 pm
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...and there's a link to this discussion site. spread the URL far and wide. David...
david.bank@...
Jul 31, 2001 8:46 pm
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My review was just posted this morning: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/04/1524254 - adam...
Adam Barr
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Aug 5, 2001 7:30 pm
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Very valuable contribution, especially from a former employee and former (?) Windows hawk. Not working in the computer biz, perhaps you can tell me, is this ...
David G. Goggin
david.goggin@...
Aug 7, 2001 7:00 pm
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The flap over Windows XP recalls the Silverberg-Allchin wrestling match over control of the browser team. There's a brief excerpt in today's Journal at ...
david.bank@...
Aug 7, 2001 8:27 pm
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Hi, I just discovered this list, (and the book of the same name) and right after entering the order on amazon.com (which included copies for me and several of...
Fernando Cassia
fcassia@...
Aug 8, 2001 1:46 am
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... try ... software ... I would say that almost all *successful* companies do it, although not all of them do it intentionally. "Lock in" or "network effects"...
adam@...
Aug 8, 2001 3:40 pm
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Chirag Patnaik
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Aug 8, 2001 5:13 pm
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I hope your message does not show the level of discussion on this list. What a disappointment....
Fernando Cassia
fcassia@...
Aug 9, 2001 11:49 pm
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I don't agree. You can give customers a choice, and you will win them more than by "locking them". Take a look at IBM. I can run IBM's own DB2 database in my...
Fernando Cassia
fcassia@...
Aug 9, 2001 11:58 pm
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... I hope your message does not show the level of ... Without dragging this beyond this one reply. I just have one question "Were you discussing when you had...
Chirag Patnaik
cpatnaik@...
Aug 10, 2001 3:52 am
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... I hope your message does not show the level of ... Without dragging this beyond this one reply. I just have one question "Were you discussing when you had...
Chirag Patnaik
cpatnaik@...
Aug 10, 2001 3:52 am
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Dear Chirag, I guess you had a bad day. ... So this is a "pissing contest", right? "you touch my loved company, I'll jump all over you"? Advertisement sig?....
Fernando Cassia
fcassia@...
Aug 10, 2001 6:04 am
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Since we are talking about ourselves and I love to boast
hands on
MS-DOS 1.0 (yes the one without sub directories), 3.0/5.0/6.2/6.22, Windows...
Chirag Patnaik
cpatnaik@...
Aug 10, 2001 7:12 pm
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... IMHO this issue is also raised in "Breaking Windows" but I'd like to discuss this whole issue. Is / in which sense is Java open? Do you think C# is more...
Gerhard Poul
gpoul@...
Aug 11, 2001 2:31 pm
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Gerhard, Thanks for your question. Your question on "Java vs C#" is based on a common misunderstanding. Java is MUCH more than a programming language. It is...
Fernando Cassia
fcassia@...
Aug 11, 2001 10:04 pm
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Thanks for your reply, Adam, I appreciate it. I've been out of town so I'm just now replying. I can see how this client lock-in effect has played out and it's...
David Goggin
david.goggin@...
Aug 12, 2001 2:14 pm
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... them more ... all depends ... competition), or just ... operating system. Right, but how much extra work is it for IBM to do that. How many people run DB2...
adam@...
Aug 13, 2001 5:29 am
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... Because Microsoft is paying them all off, or because it doesn't make business sense to do so? Microsoft has been losing tons of developers to: 1. Java. 2....
Dave Winer
dave@...
Aug 13, 2001 12:15 pm
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My point was that cross-platform development and Java are not magic, there are tradeoffs. Doing cross platform work means you have less time to focus on one...
adam@...
Aug 13, 2001 2:44 pm
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... Say what you want, but the facts are that IBM products give them you a choice of operating systems, Microsoft products hardly do. ... They "incremental...
Fernando Cassia
fcassia@...
Aug 13, 2001 8:20 pm
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A heads-up, we have received permission from the publisher and author of Breaking Windows, to run an excerpt tomorrow through DaveNet. This is the first time...
Dave Winer
dave@...
Aug 14, 2001 5:23 am
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DaveNet essay, "Excerpt from Breaking Windows", released on 8/14/2001; 7:34:08 AM Pacific. ... ***Introduction by Dave Winer In April I received an invitation...
dave@...
Aug 14, 2001 2:37 pm
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... because their ... to discuss ... Not being an expert, but from what I've seen - its more open in its documentation, its availibility. For instance, IBM has...
Addison Laurent
addison_laurent@...
Aug 14, 2001 4:11 pm
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PMFJI, but I'd like to make a contrast between the view of IBM mentioned here and the one I grew up with -- granted that was 30-40 years ago, but it's still...
David G. Goggin
david.goggin@...
Aug 14, 2001 5:17 pm
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... Exactly. That's why I believe that if there is to be a new platform in the space occupied by Java and .NET it must come from an entity that's so small that...
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