On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:20, skinky spoke unto the masses thusly: > > At a computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer > industry with the auto industry and stated:
i prefer: VMS is like a Soviet railroad train. It's basically industrial-strength, but when you look at it closely, everything's a little more shabby than you might like. It gets the job done, but there's no grace to it. The Mac operating system is like the monorail at Disney World. It's kind of spectacular and fun, but it doesn't go much of anywhere. Still, the kids like it. Windows is like the maritime transit system in an impoverished country. The ferryboats are dangerous as hell, offer no protection from the weather and leak like sieves. Every monsoon season a couple of them capsize and drown all the passengers, but people still line up for them and crowd aboard. Linux is like a hovercraft from hell in kit form. You get it for nearly free, spend days trying to build it, fail a few times, make basic building mistakes, give up, and go find some instructions which point out a button you never noticed before. You push it, and a moment later you have a form of transportation that goes nearly anywhere, and has places to add on parts so you can do nearly anything. Yet 90% of the people who try it give up before they get it put together. -- Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall..... shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html
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