Richard Reynolds wrote:
So im picking on an email. its been a long day/week/month and I wanna!!
I was just going to rant and press the delete key but if you can read
this then I decided why not Im gona send it anyways just to see what
happens
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pre-microsoft computers were a pain.
microsoft did what they had to do to fix it.
and regardless of your like for them or dislike of them, they did alot.
Pre-Microsoft computers* were no more a pain for those who learned on
them than were Microsoft computers* a pain for those who learned on them.
Either you weren't there, or have forgotten the better parts of the
Pre-Microsoftian era.
one of the things they did was to set standards, standards they aproved,
and yea so you had to pay to see them but so what, they had help, they
worked with companies to make it work. they pulled it off.
/It/ didn't set any standards really, other than by strong-arming itself
into a market position which allowed it to unilaterally call the shots
(read extort). It's certainly set a lot of bad precedents in code
quality and design. That applies to the GUI as well.
And MS never works with anyone it doesn't plan on either subverting,
buying, or destroying.
if you want
to work with M$ you can they will let you, you have to pay, and you have
to play by there rules, but it works. so you say why do I have to pay to
play, well why not, everyone else does!
Pay indeed. There are many forms of currency with which that bill has
been paid.
As for rules, MS's rules are continually changing. And it doesn't tell
anyone some of them. After all, MS prefers zero competitors. Zero. Which
is why "It" (your "it" above) doesn't work most of the time.
an auto mechanic doesnt get paid
on the same level if he has to use shop tools! an electrition that shows
up at your home or business with no tools doesnt get the work (at least
at my house), ever loan the plumber your auger to run your sewer line
for a clog??
Neither the mechanic nor the plumber is a monopolist.
Nothing M$ has done has stoped superior products from being
developed yet
You can't prove a negative. But there have been more than a few superior
products that disappeared from the market once MS decided it didn't fit
into its long-term business plan.
I dont see a whole lot of superior products (its my rant,
I know there are a few and I use them daily).
[major snip &]
Richard Reynolds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you're including any MS products in that list, you should know that
the odds are almost 100% that MS didn't invent any of them, but instead
"acquired" them. You'll be hard-pressed to name a major MS product that
was invented, or originally developed, by MS.
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* What is a Microsoft computer anyway? AFAIK, Microsoft has never made
computer.
& [My own rant] I can't comment on the rest of your self-described rant
because the run-on-forever sentences and lack of capitalization makes my
eyes hurt to much to finish reading it. If you want your opinion to be
taken seriously, at least present it in a manner that at least /tries/
to appear intelligent (i.e. follow at least /some/ of the rules of grammar).
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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