> ... I'm sick of all the M$ bashing which
> completely overlooks the fact that most people who own and drive a car
> can't even change a flat tire and DONT WANT TO. They feel the same about
> their computer and M$ delivered to them ...
Precisely. But they won't get help from the car or tire manufacturer
when they stay there in pouring rain. (They rather would ask YOU to
help.)
Well that may be their problem. What I see a problem for all others is
that both these people and their gadget manufacturers insist upon that
no other type than these cars/tires are to use the (public) road.
Take this seemingly simple thing, emailing: There's this large
"network" of development NGOs here which sends MS-Word.8 attachments
to its "partners" in Africa - those there who got any 'puters and
even a working telephone line would run Word-5 (and many would have WP
for DOS) and promtly cannot read it if they don't "upgrade". Sure too
they are overwhelmed of the joy to pay enormous connection fees to
download 180KB of formatting crap instead of the 3.5 K text content of
a message.
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