Developers As Pawns and One-Night Stands 268
jcatcw writes "At the Comes vs. Microsoft antitrust case, last Friday's testimony included evidence that James Plamondon, a Microsoft technical evangelist, in a 1996 speech referred to independent software developers as 'pawns' and compared wooing them to trying to win over a one-night stand. Last week's proceedings also included testimony by Ronald Alepin, a former CTO at Fujitsu Software Corp. and currently an adviser to the law firm Morrison Foerster LLP. He said that Lotus 1-2-3 was killed, in part, by Microsoft encouraging Lotus's programmers to use the Windows API even though Microsoft's own developers found it too complicated to use." The plaintiffs have created a site that includes transcripts of testimony presented in the case.
Woo (Score:1, Funny)
The API thing is hilarious though, if it's true..
Developers, developers, developers (Score:2, Funny)
And I'll be throwing chairs (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It's just the name of the game (Score:4, Funny)
Some companies' good will was somewhat more credible than a "one-night stand" even before Java was open-sourced.
Re: Removes it??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stupid-ass Question (Score:4, Funny)
One-night stand? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be a daemon in the sack.
You must be agile.
No time for debugging your problems.
I will not use a trojan horse.
Time slicing with others is not okay.
Don't ever call my thing a widget.
Re:And I'll be throwing chairs (Score:3, Funny)
Youtube link (Score:0, Funny)
Ironic MS Ad (Score:5, Funny)
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/bradley197
"One night stand" metaphor is very apt (Score:5, Funny)
dave
from ballmer.c (Score:3, Funny)
By the way,
Re: Removes it??? (Score:3, Funny)
One night stand with Microsoft? (Score:3, Funny)