And here you may surmize how the MS corporate message filters into the general
press:
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=639730&CFID=394445&CFTOKEN=4575162
(Also found in The Economist of June 3, p. 64, "Off with their beards.").
Henry
Jack Park wrote:
> Consider this page: http://slashdot.org/features/01/05/29/2240253.shtml
>
> A quote:
> "Bill Gates, exposed just a year ago as a ruthless and less-than-candid
> corporate predator, is today the King of the Corporate Republic, the CEO of
> Internet, Inc. He and his company are about to launch one of the most
> ambitious campaigns in the history of business, one that should leave him
> firmly in control of the digital universe. "
>
> Consider this transcluded post from Simon St.Laurant to XML-DEV:
> "Clay Shirky has an article on Hailstorm up at:
> http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/05/30/hailstorm.html
> Shirky raises copyright and control as a central issue in Microsoft's
> Hailstorm strategy:
> >This is the most audacious aspect of HailStorm, and the core of the
> >describe-and-defend strategy. Microsoft wants to create a schema which
> >describes all possible user transactions, and then copyright that
> >schema, in order to create and manage the ontology of life on the
> >Internet. In HailStorm as it was described, all entities, methods, and
> >transactions will be defined and mediated by Microsoft or
> >Microsoft-licensed developers, with Microsoft acting as a kind of
> >arbiter of descriptions of electronic reality:
> We've had discussions of whether copyrighting a schema has any
> implications for control. I can definitely see limitations on derived
> works, which strikes me as unfortunate, but I'd really like to have a
> clearer explanation from someone as to how intellectual property and XML
> interact in the legal world..."
>
> Then, there's a very recent (latest?) Business Week article about how MS
> came back much stronger.
>
> Starts, IMHO, to get rather interesting (what?). But, and sorry I cannot
> pin down the URL (I think it was at cnn.com) an article that posits AOL
> overtaking MS. Gads, what is a mother to do?
>
> And then, there's OHS. Would that it could be a breath of fresh air.
>
> Yesterday, Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart sat in a conference room together
> with several other individuals, all talking about common grounds between
> Xanadu and OHS. I am sure that some report will be forthcoming that
> details that event (I was so involved that I failed to take detailed
> notes). I can report this, however. There were at least three areas of
> commonality, and a strong interest in looking at the ZigZag structure--
> http://www.xanadu.com/zigzag/tutorial/ZZwelcome.html
> , perhaps even in concert with Lee Iverson's NODAL ideas, as a
> superstructure for an OHS. In any case, fresh air, indeed!
>
> Cheers
> Jack
>
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