On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 01:56, Lanman wrote: <lil'snip>
> Besides, none of this should come as a surprise to anyone on this list. > After all, why are we here? > > Lanman It really isn't a surprise and shouldn't be. Bear in mind that Microsoft has also been associated with some high end spamming organisations as well; and in having done a support contract with Microsoft (don't laugh - it paid the bills) I trust Microsoft's administration about as far as I can spit a ten pound rock. My deep cynicism rose during the NT 3.51 years with the amount of service packs seeming to be the same as the OS/2 Warp service packs - and hasn't but gotten worse through time. After having viewed Longborn, the interface and the likes, I still find it lacking horribly, and eating up way too much system resource on eye candy, and appearing (from what I've seen) to give one less chance for installing third party applications (like Mozilla, T-Bird, OO and more); aside from huge hardware requirements. I think we all have clients/customers/friends that are a bit sick and tired of having to upgrade machinery because of software; the corporate world ain't going to like it too much when it comes time for the upgrade; linux is looking better on a day to day basis - that is, unless Microsoft starts to use patents to kill off the competition as it looks like they're poising to do... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else." -- Carrot travels to Ankh-Morpork (Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!)
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