From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Sep 05 15:19:09 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20208 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2000 22:19:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Sep 2000 22:19:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 5 Sep 2000 22:19:08 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05213; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:19:06 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39B57151.CDC58DC1@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:18:57 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pycyn@aol.com, "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: emacs, etc. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan pycyn@aol.com wrote: > << This is the last thing that Microsoft desires: their monopoly depends on > maintaining a high applications barrier to entry. >> > > That is, it is hard for anyone else to develop an application within Windows? > Maybe it is hard, though people do seem to manage it pretty regularly. No, no. Microsoft makes it hard for people to develop applications that run well both on Windows and non-Windows. The major threats in that direction (browsers and Java) have been countered by various unsavory business tactics: tying, bundling, discriminatory pricing, and outright threats. This is what the antitrust suit is all about. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein