Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 08:37:31 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 09:27:08, Sally Weltrop wrote: >On February 11, 2003 at 21:04:36, robert flesher wrote: > >>Damn you Ed :) Thanks again....Cheers~ > >concurrently I will never use Rebel either as I have XP. Eventually it will die >because no progress is being made on it to go to this OS Sally, I see a lot of posts about migrating software to XP. Does it make you wonder why MS developers have to re-write their code every time MS rolls out an OS update? This is very costly to vendors and inconvenient to users, and it is completely unnecessary. Their computing life is being dictated to them by MS, and if you don't like it, you can just jam it, as far as MS are concerned. This is unacceptable. From a computer scientists perspective, Windows XP is marketdroid borg-ware/spy-ware. Windows XP keeps in contact with mothership Microsoft, reporting on your usage. People should free themselves of this spying and control by migrating to Linux. It is a much more flexible and cost effective environment, and the vendor is not spying on you. All real computer scientists agree. For example, my Linux workstation at work has been running continuously WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR EVEN ONE SINGLE REBOOT for 265 days, and that's with applying patches on the fly, serving web pages, serving a postgresql database, serving ftp, telnet, Xwindows, web browsing, 3270 client, Winframe client, and so forth and so on. I use this machine heavily every day and it stays up without fail. I apply software updates/upgrades on the fly without reboots. Why anyone would poke themselves in the eye every day using Windows is beyond my comprehension. The down side is that a lot of popular pay-for software runs only on the borg-ware OS. If you want to break this cycle of dependence, you should be lobbying your favorite software vendors to migrate to Linux, not to the XP police-ware. Best Regards, :-) Matt
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