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

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In article <jj1m1i$s7p$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>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. 

Maybe you don't.  Here in the states there's a huge automotive after-
market eco-system built around offering performance and upgrade auto
parts.

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