Microsoft must die ? If you are now saying that thanks to the popularization of the "personal" computers by enterprises such IBM, Microsoft and Apple ... Do you want Adobe to die to ? Maybe it should ... Do you want the Gimp and others that emulates Adobe and Microsoft to die too ?
The problem is that computers want to emulate paper ? Why ? And why the GUis are so shitty ? Software is a product or a service ? In that sense all the products are quite bad ... Computers Programmers must think about Workshops on Customizing Programs ... > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:52:29 +0100 > From: marc.garr...@furtherfield.org > To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Why Microsoft Word must Die > > Why Microsoft Word must Die > > By Charlie Stross > > I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft > Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way > Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not > dissimilar ... > > Microsoft Word is a tyrant of the imagination, a petty, unimaginative, > inconsistent dictator that is ill-suited to any creative writer's use. > Worse: it is a near-monopolist, dominating the word processing field. > Its pervasive near-monopoly status has brainwashed software developers > to such an extent that few can imagine a word processing tool that > exists as anything other than as a shallow imitation of the Redmond > Behemoth. But what exactly is wrong with it? > > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html > > > -- > ---> > > A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - > proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) > > Other reviews,articles,interviews > http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php > > Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, > discussing and learning about experimental practices at the > intersections of art, technology and social change. > http://www.furtherfield.org > > Furtherfield Gallery – Finsbury Park (London). > http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery > > Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. > http://www.netbehaviour.org > > http://identi.ca/furtherfield > http://twitter.com/furtherfield > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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