Sorry guys, i have to keep this mail intact , so here's my rant. The notion of free market MONOPOLY is not evil , just as we drink Coke occasionally althought its not a health drink .But its about softdrinks, not something as important as a computer operating system where we are in this age of technological importance , in terms of survival of our species. A OS is crtical to our species as what it means to banking ,governance ,democracy and the free world.We are here in the age of globalisation and here is what the issue as "nifty" as a debate of OS that count.Look at the world today ,its about education and poverty .We in the free world enjoyed much , even me in Malaysia, but what about those in the African continent where flies is more than Africans? Computer is what will lead these unfortunate people to the forefront of world economies.,and we know we will have inter-cultural peace if we have unlucky brethen's who have ACCESS to computer in order to be I.T literate.Then only we have a balanced world of educated friends of the world.Education defecienncy will lead to ignorance and violence.We can't blame poor people who riot and kill , among other things you know .
So here is why a responsible company will need to do .If it can't make its system free by self supporting with partnership with other corporate circles and survive on that , then it shouldn't be so expensive as costing a month of labor for a third world citizens to buy M$.He got a family to raise and he got no solution of OS substitution when it come to OS to educate and give his sons and daughters and chance for their future. And M$ is not doing well considering the it make BILLIONS out of our world .I know the U.S supreme court ordered it to do "Charity" but M$ do it by donating its system at market cost and then just called it a quit, so simple. I can rant forever but other than the moral discontent here , M$ is not a good system after all .For business people , they will pay the license no doubt , but if i am the boss of my shop and then one day my Win98 let me down and i lost my business money by using it becaouse of crash ,virus ,hackers and illegal transmission of my data by my own Win98 OS, then can i bring Microsoft to court ? Surely not .I can go on ranting but we know what all this means. Choong "Philip Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >021024 Jim C wrote: >> Hmmm... correct me if I am wrong because I am not sure about this >> but didn't X-Window exist before the GUI Windows? > >yes, long before: it came out of Bell Labs, like most IT innovations. >Apple put it into the consumer market with the Mac, >which M$ then belatedly imitated & faced a lawsuit over. > >Ballmer is doing the standard Big Lie: >attribute to your enemy the very vices or crimes you are guilty of yourself. >"He wasn't democratically elected, he's been cracking down on opposition, >he's got an overwhelming arsenal of weapons of mass destruction >& can't stop trying to obtain more, he keeps threatening other countries": >now who does that make you think of, if you don't live in the USA? > >Linux & the other free software developers are the termites >who are eating away at the foundations of the tyrant's palace, >which will one day crumble to dust: Shelley wrote a poem re it (Ozymandias). __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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