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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Microsoft's word
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:03:31 +0000 (UTC)
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Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no> writes:

>Nope.  It might cause microsoft to ensure that nothing remains backward
>compatible for as much as five years.  True innovation is one way, 
>obfuscation and needless interface changes and standards
>breakage/"extension" 
>is the easier route.  What tends to happen when a competitor implements
>some popular standard better than ms does?

We may find this out for .NET and Ximian.

	Regards
		Henning

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