If they'd been a little less greedy up front. Which MS memo/email/whatever was it that Balmer sent to Gates that ran something like,
Balmer: It' amazing no one has made a serious run at us with Unix.
Gates: It's too late.
Microsoft ordered to ship more shitty software
- (tuberculosis)
- (12)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 03:29:00 AM EST
Actually, the SHOULDN'T be allowed to ship what they want
- (jb4)
- (10)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 09:17:18 AM EST
Badly phrased
- (tuberculosis)
- (2)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 09:35:14 AM EST
Windows is an operating system (well, sorta)...
- (jb4)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 09:45:40 AM EST
Happens all the time - look up "essential facility"
-NT
- (ben_tilly)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 06:42:16 PM EST
And you can bet SUN had help in hurting Java.
- (mmoffitt)
- (6)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 12:00:38 PM EST
No' me...
- (jb4)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 01:10:21 PM EST
They didn't need any help
- (tuberculosis)
- (4)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 02:04:16 PM EST
They could have pulled it off, imo.
- (mmoffitt)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 04:36:46 PM EST
I tend to agree that Sun went off the rails re Java ...
- (dmarker)
- (2)
- Dec. 29, 2002, 09:38:28 PM EST
Don't look for it to stick.
- (mmoffitt)
- (1)
- Dec. 30, 2002, 11:16:49 AM EST
..that $%^&__ Adam Osborne__:(
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Jan. 1, 2003, 08:55:39 PM EST
My take
- (drewk)
- Dec. 24, 2002, 09:17:33 AM EST