Re: [RANT] Unfair preferential treatment of Microsoft
Re: [RANT] Unfair preferential treatment of Microsoft
- Subject: Re: [RANT] Unfair preferential treatment of Microsoft
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:49:18 -0700
On Thursday, September 20, 2001, at 11:36 AM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
On jeudi, septembre 20, 2001, at 07:50 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
See this screenshot:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/office/images/office1.jpg
Now, there is no public API to do this on OS X. I can only assume that
MS has access to this API because they pay money for it. This is
unfair. I shall now proceed to kill Apple for being so annoying.
Why wouldn't it be possible for Microsoft to code a Genie Effect ?
Microsoft? Yeah, I'm sure they could do it with about 2, maybe 3
man-years to throw at it. ;-)
Still, I'd say it's more likely that somebody from MicroSquish took
someone from the Quartz team to lunch, and got him to spill the beans on
what the calls are for applying the genie effect to a window. It's the
traditional way of getting information on unpublished API from any
vendor, not just Apple. I wouldn't chalk this up to any official policy
of Apple's, just a consequence of people knowing each other.
-jcr
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with
a terrible resolve." -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941.