Besides all the evil practices, some of their products are simply put, a pile of crap.
Windows Vista was a joke (not a funny one). IIS Server is a joke. Windows Server 2008 is a resource hog, another joke. The list can go on and on. So on top of those practices, you have crappy implementations, that people purchase because they simply don´t know (haven´t been allowed to?) know better. Apple might do evil too, but their stuff is usually very good and "just works" (thanks to MS lower standards, we take what should be the default behavior as some sort of computing miracle). On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:48 PM, kirk <kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Vince O'Sullivan wrote: > > On Jul 29, 12:46 am, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net> > > wrote: > > > >> In 1987 my Amiga outperformed PCs, could preemptively multitask and > >> had a unix like operating system. > >> > > > > Personally, I think that the greatest barrier to computing development > > has been the continuing success of 1960s operating system, Unix. > I would say that this is a naive assessment. The monumental blocker to > other operating systems has been Windows. I could back this up with a > list of operating systems that failed to take hold that were not Unix > based. > > More over, the biggest obstacle to hardware is also Windows. MS still > sets the spec as to what our hardware should look like. Want a better > mousepad experience? Move to a platform that doesn't need to conform to > MS specifications if you can find one. Oh Apple. > > > (And because the it was cheap and made usable computing available to > > many more people than previously.) > > > do a little research and you'll see this isn't so... > > > >> Apple suffered the same fate for > >> a long time. They have now finally turned around as they can piggy > >> back on enough technology and standards, that they can build machines > >> that people can actually use. > >> > > > > They can use Apple machines provided they use them in ways Apple > > approve of. Apple's recent update to iTunes to prevent non-Apple mp3 > > players from syncing with it is symptomatic of Apple's world view, > > compared to which all Microsoft's shenanigans (real or, more often, > > imaginary) are mild by comparison. > > > I think that MS shenanigans are well documented. As much as I don't > appreciate Apple's attempt to control everything, MS has killed much > much more than Apple could ever dream of killing. Look at the history of > the sparc chip and tell me that MS hasn't damaged the industry. Then > just go beyond Sparc and look at many of the other technologies that > everyone seems to forget that MS either ripped or some how strangled. > > Regards, > Kirk > > > > > -- Juan Marín Otero Ingeniero de Montes Consultor SIG -------Visita mis blog en--------------------- http://programacionsig.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------- http://guachintoneando.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
