[M$ crap] Phoebus wrote:
>there's one thing that may be involved here... and that's English not >being the native language for many ql-users contributors (incl. myself). >We know as much English as we are taught (and many of us are self taught) >and we do not posess the advantage of being born in the US, or the UK etc... He he - now we have to wait to see who will point out that being norn in the US may not always be viewed as an advantage in matters of the English language... I mean this purely linguistically :-) But Phoebus is right. Also, the 'C' word may be considered relative. M$ is not known for their openness to share aspects of their OS whenever it gives them a competitive advantage (and that's mostly always). And yet, they, with all their supposed manpower get things horribly, sometimes childishly, carelessly wrong - and still have the audacity to sell a flawed product for a high price. And thay claim enormous sums went into making these products a realiti, at which point one has to wonder if it went for pizza to feed all the M$ employees? To get this back on topic - the QL was widely regarded as 'unfinished' (and that's just a mild word compared to some reviews of years past), a factor which arguably leadt to it's comercial demise - and for all intents and purpses, to it's demise as a contribution to computing - something which we are all here to essentially correct, because we all feel that something important has been lost to the world. Yet, when I first installed Word 95, freshly bought - i.e. a release version - it failed to display a cursor in rows containing only line feeds - and reviewers sung praises. I mean, SMSQDOS may not have TCP/IP but at least it gets the basics right! People are fond of 'the car analogy' - the equivalent of the WFW 95 syndrome in a car would be something like a car with lights that only work if you are driving on an already lighted road. It's really one of those 'by any other name' things - some standards cannot be made relative, no matter that there seems to be only one choice ast to who sets the standard. Nasta
