Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 07:31:03 10/11/02
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On October 10, 2002 at 21:40:25, Peter Skinner wrote:
>On October 10, 2002 at 21:08:12, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 2002 at 01:29:30, Peter Skinner wrote:
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>>>On October 09, 2002 at 20:36:36, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>.
>>>
>>>Well actually you should have seen the problems I had when I first installed
>>>Linux using the Wildcat video card. My windows problems were nothing compared to
>>>that.
>>>
>>>Also the Turtle Beach sound card I use has almost no linux support. Or the usb
>>>2.0 ethernet card I use. That didn't work at all.
>>>
>>>I had to recompile the kernel in linux so many times it wasn't funny.
>>>
>>>For the most part the only way Linux installs without a problem is if you have
>>>all your devices onboard. Other than that yes LINUX CAN BE COMPLEX.
>>>
>>>Honestly Christophe your rants against Microsoft and how it sucks was the actual
>>>reason I did not purchase Chess Tiger 15.
>>
>>
>>And actually I'm glad you don't purchase it. I think I don't need you as a
>>customer.
>>
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>>> You rant about how horrible Windows is
>>>yet you make it available for sale for that very platform.
>>
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>>And you don't understand, do you? That's maybe too much over your head?
>>
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>>>As the saying goes:
>>>
>>>"Never bite the hand that feeds you"
>>
>>
>>I bite whatever hand I want. I'm free.
>>
>>Look, computer chess is my passion. I have spent 20 years without getting a dime
>>from it.
>>
>>If I don't get any more money from it in the future, tell you, I don't care.
>>
>>I'm not going to accept anything just to please you.
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>>>If you want to continually look like an ass so be it. I however won't support
>>>your program due to it.
>>
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>>Look: I don't care what people think about me. I don't care if you don't want to
>>buy my program because of my opinions.
>>
>>I couldn't care less.
>>
>>I work on Chess Tiger and I work hard. You think it's worth the price, you buy
>>it. You think I'm an asshole, you don't buy it.
>>
>>I will go on ranting about Microsoft more and more. They *really* deserve it.
>>
>>They pay you, so just keep on supporting them and pleeeeeease don't buy Chess
>>Tiger.
>
>I actually don't work for Microsoft. So I don't see how they pay me..??
>
>And actually you are the one that _doesn't_ get it. I know that you sell Tiger
>for Windows as there is a market for it. Thus is the reason I say do not bite
>the hand that feeds you.
You still don't get it.
It doesn't matter if I bite the hand of Windows.
If Windows loses market, people will anyway use another OS.
I will not lose a single sale. I'll sell more Chess Tiger for Linux or for
MacOS, that's all.
That's why I can say exactly what I think about Microsoft and the way they are
turning their OS into an advertising platform for their other products. Which is
the reason why they will give it away for free or almost in a few years.
But free or not, it remains that Windows is becoming with each release closer
and closer to a Trojan horse.
>You can rant all you want about Microsoft products and their practices. I am
>just tired of you throwing your worthless two cents into a "Windows"
>conversation.
I'm just trying to analyse and think about a product that so many people in the
world use. People use it without understanding the implications.
It's just now that Microsoft has raised dramatically the price for the right to
use their products (and turned it into a kind of yearly tax) that IT managers
realize how locked with Windows they are. And start to see if there are
alternatives, but now they know that this dependance is going to cost them a
lot. And getting rid of it is going to be painful.
A long time ago, a few people started to say that smoking was dangerous. Nobody
cared, until people started to die from cancer.
I think that it is important to have a deep thinking on the things we are using
every day. Are they safe or not?
I see a danger in Windows, and the Microsoft that hides behind it. I say it.
I see an alternative that is not dangerous, I say it.
>This entire thread that started as a call for help turned into yet another
>Christophe hates Windows thread.
>
>Congratulations.. your the center of attention again..
I did not bring in the subject. You did.
Actually it started as Peter hates Chess Tiger because Christophe rants about
Windows.
Who started the ranting here?
>Your nothing but a child. Time to grow up Christophe. Linux will _never_ over
>take Windows. It is about time you faced that fact. Linux will never do it. It
>does not have the best of learning curves. It is rather technical in a society
>that wants things as simple as possible. Linux will never be that easy.
You have problems to project yourself into the future, do you? :)
It does not matter how well you know the present. If you are not able to
consider things on an abstract level, you cannot see where we are going to.
Christophe
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