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• Preposterous Nonsense
  2005-10-05 07:52:17  Giles Turnbull | [Reply | View]
  
  
  Your heartfelt flame doesn't clearly say what you consider to be nonsense, so it's hard for me to defend myself.
  
  I'm not 'appeased'; it's not like I'm rushing out to buy a Dell machine based solely on the posts I've read on a few weblogs.
  
  My point was intended to be about communication, and the willingness (or otherwise) of large corporations to communicate openly with customers and users.
  
  I simply don't accept the argument (made elsewhere in the comments here) that MS's apparent openness is a result of it being so behind the competition, *and that by logical consequence*, Apple has no need to open up at all. It just doesn't follow. Why can't a market leader allow just a little insight into its internal activities? Being market-leading web services hasn't stopped Google and Yahoo opening up with official and not-so-official communications channels.
  
  From my point of view, the good thing about this article was the fantastic response it triggered from readers, almost all of whom had a valid criticism or useful additional insight to add.
• Preposterous Nonsense
  2005-10-05 18:51:51  decoder [Reply | View]
  
  
  The ellipticism of your response is great: you end with my initial conclusion, which, btw, answers your other question: I didn't enumerate the preposterous aspects because that has duly been done.
  
  You also don't answer the claim that you are falling for a Microsoft ruse by refuting a straw man argument. The insane irony is that Mickey has been doing this same nonsense forever, and your not even acknowledging that is ludicrous. You mentioned Office. Remember when they first promised to 'open up' and make all the apps use XML? Go ask Tim Bray about that. The promise... the reality...