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[As part of that process, Netscape, the company, gained "adult supervision" - and those supervisors insisted on formalising development processes. So what happened? progress stopped, Microsoft gained three years in which to respond, and the combination of easy cash on the way out with increasing internal hassles created such chaos that development, and therefore eventually the entire company, collapsed.]

Netscape tried to make things proprietary - plugins and javascript. They ignored the W3C and tried to do what M$ does - impose a "standard" on the world (but still own it). M$ beat them by appearing more "open" - even making versions of IE for UNIX (Solaris and HP-UX). I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why would M$ do that - and why they would stop doing that . . .

You keep trying to ignore Software Engineering (and Software Quality techniques), in an attempt to increase innovation. This will usually work - you will get more innovation and less quality. All of those software examples you stated started off as buggy, maddening code that slowly matured. I never thought you would approve of a M$ technique - beta test in production, but you seem to be going in that direction.

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 10/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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