Richard Reynolds wrote:
pre-microsoft computers were a pain.
I'm SO glad computers are no longer a pain. And surely nobody else could have come along and solved the problem any better.
one of the things they did was to set standards, standards they aproved, and
If it were a standard we would be able to interoperate. We can't. They recently made their first try at a real standard (pitching OOXML to the ISO) and it failed in scandal.
application. I dont see any progress here. we complain about stability, Ive seen NT4, 2000 and 2003 boxes run for as long as each has been out, no rebooting, complain about the desktops most get turned off at night anyways
So you never applied patches which required a mandatory reboot?
Its an excuse I put up with every day, none of my good printers are supported in linux, so my home/office server has vmware installed and a copy
If it isn't supported in Linux it doesn't do postscript which means it isn't a good printer.
and so we sit here ranting about how M$ did us wrong because we have no
Well, they are convicted monopolist both in the US and in the EU. They curently owe billions in fines which they are refusing to pay. So yeah, they did do us wrong. Americans and Europeans.
choice, pick any other area besides operating systems and you see it EVERY DAY, how many of us complain there. better yet how many do anything about it.
A lot of people do something about it. If they didn't I wouldn't have all of this wonderful free software. And without the help of KPLUG over all of these years I couldn't have learned how to use it so well.
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