Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13392

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:32:46 GMT

Interesting.

True.

Or a monopolist trying to loss-lead a compebreastor out of existence.

Still, six of one, half a dozen of another...

Judge Jackson was later overruled, as I recall. Apparently he was not unprejudicial enough.

But not tomorrow; they are being replaced, near as I can tell, by WinHTTP. :-) But this is a quibble.

No, you need to install the application *and* the SDK. There are a fair number of SDKs available for Linux -- some of them better documented than others. (And nobody in the world calls them SDKs. At best, they might be includefile kits or some such.)

IE is now part of the OS in any event.

Maybe, but it set a bad precedent. Fortunately, no one really believes marketing anyway. :-)

And they should continue to do so -- even if it means locking out compebreastive products. After all, they are not a monopoly, correct?

No, the dirty trick was that MS would disallow the lower price if the OEM sold even one box without their OS on it. (At least, if memory serves me correctly. Bear in mind OEMs have razor-thin margins; that's why desktop prices are currently so low.)

Well, with luck, Linus Torvalds and crew. :-)

Like I said, it's not clear that this was a dirty trick, but it smells a little strange.

Note that this spec is itself either deprecated or ignored in Sun's documentation, which I'd have to find. The clbuttid in particular looks a little weird; no doubt Sun has registered its plugin as an ActiveX component. As far as I'm concerned it's a "magic number", but fortunately Sun documents it. (A different clbuttID is possible if one wants to restrict Java usage to a specific Java version. That one contains "CAFE", as I recall, somewhere in there.)

These are from my notes, which are Java 1.4. I'd have to look regarding Java 5. As far as I know, these work, but may not be 100% kosher.

Deprecated spec:

W3C spec:

IE-compatible spec:

code=hello.clbutt codetype="application-java-archive" standby="Loading..." width=200 height=200

Embed form: (not standard, but can be included in IE-compatible for older-model Netscape browsers)

...

(And yes, I had to struggle with this; one of our products makes heavy use of applets.)

They could have put it somewhere more compatible, such as com.microsoft.

IE is standard. An undocumented standard, to be sure, but Microsoft can easily fix that. :-) (Other members of the committee might look on these attempts disfavorably, and Microsoft may have to ensure it does have proper documentation of IE -- which can get complicated with the interrelationships between IE's various components.)

Or OEMs will buy (or be forced, by the "dead hand" of economics) for the people on their behalf.

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