From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T23:41:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and .NET



Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
<snip>
 In the cases where Microsoft *did*
> win (web browsers, media) Microsoft simply had the better product.  IE
> is a hell of a lot better than NS4.x 

(rotten)Apples and Oranges. What kind of revisionist history is
this? IE couldn't compare to NS when IE first came out. Which was
the whole reason for the browser wars.  MS couldn't win fair so
they won foul.  

> (6.x just recently jumped on the
> scene, so far as the average user goes), and I'd use WMP over RealPlayer
> any day.  I generally don't stick the word innovation with MS, but they
> have mastered the art of improvement.  

"Art of improvement?" Come on.

And with people like myself, and
> 90% of the average users, who simply prefer to use the best, that
> ability to improve tends to weigh a lot more than the initial
> innovation.

Many people do want the best and don't care where it came from,
which is why selling new name brand goods from the trunk of a car
is still so popular among such a clientele.