[luau] Article: Microsoft: Bundling vs. Modularity

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Fri May 3 23:39:14 PDT 2002


This is an article someone on Kuro5hin.org wrote.  It gets a little too 
into the OSS advocacy at times to be considered truely objective, but 
some of what the author says merits consideration.

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"Microsoft wants us to believe that Internet Explorer and Windows Media 
Player are tied so deeply in the OS that they cannot be removed. As 
middleware they are good things, but so is DirectX, and Microsoft 
doesn't say that can't be removed from the operating system. Windows is 
far more modular than Microsoft wants to admit to the court. Microsoft 
has grown to the point that they no longer need to compete, and the only 
way for them to survive as a company is to stop competing and start 
sharing. If something doesn't happen to change Microsoft's behavior, the 
backlash against them and other corporate giants will send proprietary 
software and countless tech jobs into obsolescence."

[Continued in article]

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/2/16523/44266

--MonMotha




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