On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 07:44, Frankie wrote: > >Bill Gates didn't make people idiots, God did. Hate the user, not the > >developer. > > > >Next... > > > >Brandon Vanderberg > >www.clueless.m$killedmydoggy.andi'mgonnacry.whaaa.com > > > >Linux User #34.5 | Linux machine > >123amicoolyet472notyet340now?987NO!needlongersig05789 > >Kernel 9.12.45customsupercoolAllYourThreadsAreBelongToUs > >Current load = WhoGivesAFlyingFock | Average Load = NoOneDoes > >Number of times aterm has been run since last reboot = 12,638 (cuz people > >wanna know that) > >My signature isn't long enough to make me l33t yet... > >This computer is %100 Microsoft tolerant. > > > > "I drive a 1971 Ford Truck. I can work on any part of it, > >so everybody > >driving anything else must suck. And the people that make those other cars > >are trying to take over the world and must be kill- ... er... sued." > > - B. Vanderberg (about 5 minutes ago) > > > > FRANKI: > > While I agree with that to a degree.. I don't think its the whole picture.. > > M$ is about money.. not software, they have an extremely bad record with > regards > to security problems and just buggy software.. and yet they still "ship > now, fix later". > > Considering they use their monopoly to expand into new markets at every > given chance.. you'd think > they would make a better effort to lock down their sortware.. but each time > they release a new OS, its quickly followed by a new "biggest ever" type > flaw.. like XP and uPnP and now 2003 and the rpc flaw that blaster is based > on. > > M$ probably isn't unhappy about this at all, in their minds its probably > just good PR for getting > Paladium pushed though later on. >
I'll just quote Douglas Adams, writing about Windows 95 in an article in 'The Guardian' 'The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.' Paul M
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