Saturday, May 05, 2001, 3:11:25 PM, David Elliott wrote:
> Dear Silviu
> On 05 May 2001 at 11:36:15 +0300 (which was 09:36 where I live) Silviu
> Cojocaru emanated estas palavras da sabedoria
>> Kylix, well maybe, sometime...,I don't know if Linux users would pay to
>> have The Bat! on their system, I wouldn't. It's the BEST Windows mailer,
>> but the ones developed for Linux are getting better every day and all
>> that for free.
>> I don't mean to start a flame war, but The Bat! makes money on Windows
>> only.
> <personal view>
> This is due to a different mentality of Unix users who are use to open
> source products.
> Windows users are use to the M$ way. If you want some thing good you have
> to pay for it, or use the M$ stuff. M$ do produce a good product ones in a
> while but I can count them on one hand.
> </personal view>
I have just one little objection to your point of view... it is
possible to get something good for free even in the M$ world,
take ZoneAlarm for example, people only say best things about
this fella' and indeed it's great and free. I would agree if you
said good free stuff is hard to _find_ on M$ platforms though :)
Another thing is that not all M$ OS users have the money to get
all the stuff they need. Those guys usually take the shareware
from the net or some CD that comes with some magazine then they
locate a crack for it on the net, and presto, they have it for
free. No protection is cracker proof, sooner or later, some guy
will find a way to deal with it and make some poor folks happy.
I'm not saying that TB is expensive, for me as a student it
costs 25$, but, in poor countries like Bulgaria, Romania, don't
expect people that have computers to buy software... they have
it all for "free".
--
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...
...Oh wait, he already does.
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