On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:22 +0000, Andrew Brown wrote: > Secondly, and selfishly, if he goes someone else will have to take up the > position of microsoft realist,
Chad is not a Microsoft realist, he is often rude, often beligerant and impolite. Maybe you haven't been here very long but to those of us who have, his MS leanings are the least of the problem. > pointed out that Calc > is about *136 times* slower to load spreadsheets than Excel. So what? I loaded a JPeg in Word and it took 100 time longer to render thanin a 10 year old piece of software on my Acorn computer. That doesn't mean everyone is going to rush off to buy RISC OS machines. No doubt technical things will be improved. Success in the standards wars has not often been an issue of technical excellence, more one of confidence so undermining confidence in our own product is counter-productive. > Thirdly -- let's keep a sense of proportion. This is a mailing list. It > achieves nothing. Mailing lists actually achieve a lot. Its just Geeks who thik that the only thing that matters is coding. In fact, political and marketing considerations are far more likely to detemine standards than technical excellence. If it was down to technical excellence DOS and Windows would never have got off the ground. Since mailing lists are an avenue of communication they can be very influential in achieving a great deal. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
