Joe Dunning wrote:

> Microsoft's methods appear to be to get potential competitors onto
their
> side first, then kill them. Sun's present state with regard to
Microsoft
> is only temporary -- if the agreement has reduced or removed Sun's
> ability to compete, then all Sun has done is delay their demise.

I was reminded by a blurb in the latest MacWorld that John Sculley was
one of the first to make that mistake - a 1985 agreement letting MSFT
use some Mac OS technology in exchange for continuing Word on the Mac
and delaying Excel one whole year. I thought it was dumb then, and I
think history supports that opinion.


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