At 07:51 PM 6/11/00 -0400, Lizard wrote:
Which leads me to this question -- so why doesn't Bill just close up
shop? He's got fifty+ billion dollars -- he couldn't spend it all in
his lifetime if he tried. So why doesn't he just pull a John Galt and
say, "Fine. I hereby close down Microsoft.
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
And that is why UNIX deserves to be thrown in the trash can. It is NOT a
good operating system. It is poorly designed, buggy and baddly documented.
Read the UNIX hater's manual for chapter and verse. Its success had
everything to the fact it was once given away
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
You confuse market share, e.g., the decision by most consumers to
choose Windows over OS/2 or Plan 9 or DrDOS, etc.
How are the consumers who can't cope with the Web and have to use the AOL
version meant to be able to learn UNIX or Plan-9?
I take it you've
That's ok, I still got you on the Apple "stealing" from Xerox bit. :)
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tim May wrote:
--Xerox PARC had overlapping windows. Apple used the 1979
demonstration to redirect it's nonoverlapping windows to be
overlapping. This is detailed in some of the histories of PARC,
including "Dealers in Lightning."
Hmm, yes, now that I read back,
Mr May:
You also have no appreciation of the concept of "initiation of
force." The break up of Microsoft is initiation of force. Period.
The ordered breakup of Microsoft is no more an "initiation of
force" than any of the times microsoft filed dubious lawsuits against
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