Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 10:07:52 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 11:37:31, Matthew Hull wrote: >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. I am pretty sure that Linux is a good OS but I wonder about some software written for it. I'd love to go to the Linux world, in fact, I did the first step installing a dual boot system in my computer. I did the second step too, making sure that my program Gaviota will run in Linux. However, I still find hurdles with the software. There are many simple wordprocessors but they look buggy to me. For instance, the other day they could not print a simple file. What was the solution? reboot. Hey, at least the experince with MS helps :-) I will keep trying despite it is an effort, but... Miguel > >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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