[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4f543b84$0$1541$c3e8da3$f017e9df at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> > So basically, TCP/IP is now been developed on the basis that customers
> > will not be able plug in third party components to replace the HP
> > supplied components.
> 
> Correct, and in all fairness, I don't think you could really criticise
> HP for this.  This was in effect way back in the Digital days.
> 
> Remember that the competing stacks such as TGV and Wollongong all had
> their own full mail suite with POP servers as well. So people who went
> with those stacks already had those servers which were generally better
> than the one supplied by Dec/Compaq/HP.
> 
> So having interoperability between individual components of different
> stacks was never seen as a priority or necessity.

This is an argument which I've never understood.  Usually, it is applied
to Microsoft's "unfair" practice of bundling IE with the OS and making
it difficult to use another browser instead.  It seems to me that IF YOU
DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T BUY IT.  We don't require car manufacturers to
design their cars so that one can easily swap the factory-supplied
engine, or air-conditioning system, or brakes or whatever with
third-party products.