Re: Is ActiveX safe? -- PCTECH

Scott,

In no way am I trying to say it is anybody's "fault" besides MS that activex
is Windows and IE only.  And it was probably on purpose. Do we need to like
it?  No.

But before we start attributing too much to MS, remember when Java died?
For a while, MS was on the Java Bandwagon also.  Then Sun complained about
the way MS was doing things and filed a "Cease and Desist" order.  MS
complied with that order (to Sun's great surprise) and stopped shipping
JVM's with windows. Be careful what you wish for, it might come true.

But the bottom line is that MS does NOT exist to enhance our lives.  They
exist to enhance the lives of MS Shareholders. It's called capitalism. 

They are no more of an evil empire than IBM was in the 70's.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:24 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Is ActiveX safe?

Hi Bob,

But of course, it is PC to knock MS and considered bad form to say bad
things about poor Sun, Apple, etc who as "everybody" knows are the
innocent victims of the big bad Gates Machine.


The only criticism I've seen of Microsoft in this thread is that ActiveX
(which is a Microsoft invention) isn't cross-platform.  That article
confirms that this is the case -- it refers to XPCOM as cross-platform,
while making it clear that ActiveX is native Windows code.

Are you saying that we shouldn't blame Microsoft for the fact that ActiveX
isn't cross platform?   Or perhaps even that we should blame Apple or Sun
for that?

Seems pretty clear to me that if Microsoft designs, writes, supports,
markets, popularizes, and distributes a product.  And Sun and Apple
aren't at all involved in that process...   perhaps it's Microsoft, not
Sun or Apple who should be blamed for the shortcomings?  What am I
missing?
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