On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:11, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:09:51 -0500, > > "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ..to put it short: picture yourself on your single seat bike going > > full bore on the freeway just like Wintendo does on on your PC. > > (For multi-user os'es, substitute bike for automobile, bus etc, > > as you see fit.) > > > > ..now, going full bore, for every Bluescreen Of Death[Tm] you have > > ever seen on your box, picture having someone instead of the BOD, > > toss a bucket of blue paint in your face. > > > > ..how many of you guys would be alive today? ;-) > > Is it just the paint, or is it the bucket with the paint inside being > tossed? Because that makes a big difference. >
Paint followed by the empty bucket? > But that speaks to the point. With a 747 people's lives are actually > at stake. With microsoft's email software, that is usually not the > case (although there are plenty of individual instances where people's > lives depend on software, but that's not what we are talking about > here.) > Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, if anyone ever gets out alive...So having more than one company in competition is a must have. The biggest problem with MSFT, its a monopoly. Boeing and Airbus actually compete, although I do wish McDonnell Douglas was still around though. Matt _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
