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Re: Who blows the whistle on Microsoft? Time to stand u p

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• Subject: Re: Who blows the whistle on Microsoft? Time to stand u p
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:17:48 -0500
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On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 16:47 America/Detroit, Bullard, Claude L 
(Len) wrote:

> The web is plumbing; not the washing machine.
> Pick the model that lets you adjust the load
> capacity and the hot/cold cycles according to
> the clothes to be washed.  The pipes are just
> there.
>

The pipes are only there because most people agreed that simple and 
cheap washing machines are better than fancy models that require you to 
buy your plumbing from Maytag.  <duck>

  Without HTML, there would be no Web. Kill HTML and replace it with Son 
of Blackbird/Longhorn, and HTTP will be next on the hit list.  TCP/IP, 
SMTP, etc. are pretty limited too, once you decide that cool and 
proprietary are better than simple and standard.  Where does that leave 
us, other than back in the '80s where you picked you vendor, and that 
determined who you got to exchange data with at a reasonable speed and 
cost?

Of course, nobody, not Steve Ballmer in his most evil mood :-) wants to 
kill the Internet, but it's not Just There, it's there because people 
made tradeoffs between what is cool for some and what is interoperable 
for all. 
  

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