"Roedy Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Of course he cares. He is a shill. He licks that hand that feeds him. In an indirect sense. The company I work for does get a lot of sales because we are "anyone but Microsoft". So we actually profit from people's dislike of Microsoft's products. FWIW, I do think most Microsoft products are utter crap with one exception -- in a sufficiently controlled situation, the product can be demonstrated to be able to do what most people think they want it to do. I'm not sure whether or not the market really wants crap. It may be that Microsoft correctly read that the mass market for software is for crap software, just like the mass market for science television is for crap science television. Frankly, I hope not. It's kind of like how a PBS science special, largely free from market forces, is generally of fairly high quality. On the other hand, a network science special shaped largely by market forces, is likely to be about a person who has learned how to speak with cats or the dead. DS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list