Comments on: Smoking Gun/e-mail in Novell v M$ http://mrpogson.com/2011/11/22/smoking-gune-mail-in-novell-v-m/ One man, closing all the windows. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Clarence Moon http://mrpogson.com/2011/11/22/smoking-gune-mail-in-novell-v-m/#comment-64831 Clarence Moon Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:49:40 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=9089#comment-64831 I don’t see what the fuss is all about here. It looks like Microsoft invented some functions that were thought to be useful for their Office product line and decided not to put them into the OS, keeping them proprietary since they thought it would give them some advantage over competitors.

If you buy Office, it installs these extension DLLs and uses them. From what I know about other applications, they do the same thing. Oracle’s database, for example, installs a lot of functions that talk directly to the disk drives to manage data exchanges and so make Oracle work better than other database products. Adobe does the same thing with their applications.

What is the big deal?

]]> By: Kozmcrae http://mrpogson.com/2011/11/22/smoking-gune-mail-in-novell-v-m/#comment-64592 Kozmcrae Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:46:15 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=9089#comment-64592 I’m sure Bill Gates spent some time with his lawyers grilling him and preparing him for any kind of cross examination he might face on the witness stand. They couldn’t possibly let him crumble into a fetal position again like he did on Judge Pennfield Jackson’s witness stand. That’s the Bill Gates you see when someone has authority over him and demands that he tells what he knows.

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