On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Jerome Tan: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Like everyone else, I can see Microsoft's power extending over the ocean,
> > and many people thinks that Linux is the only contender of Microsoft, but so
> > far... it's no much yet. It was known that Linux OS was proud of itself
> > because was better in terms of everything compare to Windows, I think Linux
> > developers should think about "embrace and extend" strategy, that is, to
> > adapt everything or user interface of Windows so that it would be easy for
> > everyone to move to Linux.
>
> Now why would a uniek operating system want to "copy" ideas from another
> software company like "micky$oft"?, this is in actual fact what you are
> saying.
>
> As it happens many items in widows are copied from Unix ideas, the whole
> widows system was based on the old mackintosh GUI interface, all Microsoft
> did was get the writers of the software to go and work for him to produce
> the first windows version.
>
> If you have a particular make of car and have never driven another you would
> not say, before i buy another brand they need to make it just like my brand
> so i know how everything works, that is what you are saying.
>
> Your point about "it's not much yet" is because you dont understand just how
> to drive it, like the example of the car above.
> When you have leant to drive it properly, you will soon see that it is far
> beter then widows, (yes its spelt correctly).
>
> Linux "does" have some aspects of "embrace and extend" strategy, its
> possably that you have not yet learned to find them and use them to thier
> full extent.
>
> Like the old sying, "Rome was'nt built in one day" It took six ;-)
> Where's the 7th day some would ask, the answer to that is, it is resurved
> for "Learning to operate Linux".
>
I completely agree with you here
Frank
> >
> > Just my thoughts.
> >
> > [Jerome Tan]
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>
>
> --
> Regards Richard.
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