Re: Is ActiveX safe?

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > They are no more of an evil empire than IBM was in the 70's.
>
> I don't know how bad IBM was in the 70's.  In the 80's, they made a number
> of glaringly stupid mistakes, from misgauging the commoditization of the
> PC
> to dropping the ball on OS/2,  You might argue that these were simply
> failed
> attempts to pull the same dirty tricks Bill Gates has pulled so
> successfully
> over the years, but I haven't seen anything like that in decades.
> Certainly
> these days, IBM is far worse to IBM than to the outside world.  The
> foolish
> internecine warfare between the System i and pretty much everybody else is
> a
> clear example of that.
>
> Joe
[From Bob:] On this we can both probably agree: IBM blew it in the 80's.
And it was a combination of the things you say.  PC's and OS/2.

But it was IBM who invented Gorilla Marketing.  And yes, Gates embraced and
extended it and proved to be even better at it than IBM!

I also agree that IBM is far worse to IBM than to the outside world.  But
I'd like to modify to read "IBM Is far worse to IBM and their partners...."

I've never dealt with a company as hard to do business with as IBM!  Even
the Phone or Cable company is easier to deal with!