"The steadiest player" ??!!!??? read that: he who has run down, bought out or otherwise cut the throat of. and/or he who has the biggest FUD department.
besides that, jazziness (ie:media hype) should not be the determining factor of which OS you use. a product stands on its own merits, not the colour of the minute media 'jazziness'. some of the reasons why i switched are: system stability, security, i hate features like user tracking (remembering which menu items i click most often), the big $$ for buggy software, versions marked by the year, oh ya stability, market stifling practices, oh ya, stability..... moose. On March 10, 2002 07:43 am, you wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:34:55AM +0100, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Good Sunday all ! > > > > Just happened to come across an article in "PC Magazine" by the > > legendary John C. Dvorak. I find it highly relevant for us here on the > > list, so I'll take the liberty to consume quite some bandwith and quote > > him in length. If you'll read the article directly, here it is : > > http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1500&a=23172,00.asp > > Legendary?! Only in his own mind. He's a M$ shill, you want an unbiased > opinion from him?! > > Indeed, thinking that Linux needs PhotoShop, man what do you think the > GIMP does? Clearly not well researched as the only thing PhotoShop does > that GIMP doesn't yet is CYMK colour - that's coming though. > > BTW the link would have sufficed. > > > Please forgive me for taking your time folks ! > > <snip> ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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