[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[Bill]

---------- Original Message ----------
To: Derek Fountain (derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk)
From: Jeremy White (jwhite at codeweavers.com)
Subject: Re: [cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...
Date: 2/15/2007 2:04:07p
 
> And you're not the first person to report odd troubles like this.

I grow weary of this subject being endlessly kicked around.

Look, folks, there's something you have to take into account.

Microsoft hides API functionality from the 'general public', sharing such
information, if at all, with carefully vetted ''partners'', among them Intuit.

What does this mean?

Intuit has SOME insider information about how Windows works, allowing
them to make their products not only work, or work better, than those from
un-informed outsiders, but also they have agreed NEVER to discuss this matter.

Intuit is not going to tell you why this or that feature works or doesn't work,
whether on Windows, Linux, OS-10, or anything else. They CAN NOT talk
about it. Get that part straight. They will not discuss this, especially with
dummies who do not understand what is going on.

Intuit co-operates, as do virtually all other partners, to protect microsoft's TURF
in the operating system wars. Oh, you didn't know there was a war? And here
you are, being held PRISONER to microsoft's closed system.

If you harbor some illusion that this is conspiracy theory run amuck, let me
inform you that a) there absolutely IS a conspiracy; and b) all the proof any
sane person could ever need has been 'Discovered' anew in the Iowa case
right now being tried. Since microsoft provided this proof in requested documents
that are under protective order, the Plaintiff's lawyers had to ask to be allowed
to contact the Dept of Justice, to inform them of this blatant violation of the
otherwise weak and ineffectual 'remedy' imposed on microsoft after they
supposedly lost the US vs microsoft case.

There are therefor good reasons why Intuit, microsoft, and thousands of other
people's programs dont always work quite right when codeweavers or others
attempt to 'import' them into other operating systems.

If you have to blame someone, at least be decent enough to blame the CAUSE
of this mess, instead of other innocent victims of this criminal behavior.

Bill Hemmings
Hutchinson, Kansas
bill at sunsouthwest.com