Author: ERIQ
Date: 09:43:04 05/28/01
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On May 28, 2001 at 12:12:11, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>On May 28, 2001 at 09:40:26, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2001 at 02:51:23, ERIQ wrote:
>>
>>>When some day soon we all wakeup and look around and all we see is one interface
>>>then I'm going to say "I told you so".
>>>
>>>look What happened the last time a company became a big monopoly IE. microsuck.
>>
>>Wow, I wonder that this post isn't deleted by a certain M$-"friendly" moderator.
>>:-)
>
>You means me. I worked there from 1988-1996. I got mad some years ago when
>some bozo moderator called the company "microshit".
>
>I think I'm calmer about this now, because I realize that use of terms like that
>are just a bad choice by the writer. If everyone agrees fully with you, fine,
>but you distract and possibly alienate those who are elsewhere within the
>spectrum.
so what !! I am only expresing myself on this matter not to mention I didn't
come here to make friends or war for that matter only to point out something.
>
>bruce
>
>>>Now we are all slaves to their software IE all good chess programs are written
>>>now for windows.
>>
>>
>>If you were a programmer, getting money for that business, for which platform
>>would you be programming?
>>
>>
>>> And microsuck hasn't even produced a bug free product yet straight out of the
>>>box. It always takes two versions,that we must pay for before it works well and
>>>by that time they have another dud program for sell. When will we learn.
>>
>>
>>Honestly, the alternatives (please name them) aren't really usable.
Linux w/ kde 2.1.1" I think it's time we rethink our choices, if
right now every programmer started programming for it, I would bet that it would
be alot better than anything microsuck has to offer within a year. IE. I ran
genius 2.0 for win w/ wine recently in debian 2.2 and it ran faster than in pure
windows.
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