The incompatibility interpretation requires Plato to change the meaning of heteron from "different" to "incompatible," and there is no evidence in the text that he does.
The three approaches may lead to incompatible results.
First, it does not fragment the operating system, an approach that could have led to incompatible computers and programs.
Of course, the Christians and the counterculture came to incompatible conclusions about what a revolutionized society should look like.
At times Mr. Maal's collaborations have led to incompatible hybrids, but his own band never lets him down.
The relationship was based on romantic love, but the marriage was not a happy one owing to incompatible interests.
"It is chaos right now," she said, referring to "incompatible" economic structures and policies across the eurozone, which were impeding a successful resolution of the crisis.
The courts have found that consumers are unlikely to discard Windows because of "switching costs" -- the need to replace applications and computers when switching to incompatible operating systems.
And if it does need tanks, why suddenly switch from British armor, which it has used for decades, to incompatible Eastern-bloc equipment?
It had also accommodated widely expressed fears that one remedy he and many other experts favored -- splitting the Windows operating business into three competing enterprises -- would lead to incompatible forms of Windows.
But this approach, like licensing, could lead to incompatible versions of Windows, and some experts believe the market might not accommodate more than one version of Windows, ensuring that two of the companies might fail.
