Quothe jim stephens, from writings of Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:12:10PM -0700: Wrong. It appears that the only way that Micro$oft wins anything is by cheating and bribing, which is why so many politicians in the U.S. appear to like Micro$oft. No amount of "development support" from Micro$oft can make up for having products that suck and crash; it's only because of their putrid products that they need to provide such support; it's called "marketing gimmickry." Firstly, Linux isn't the only viable UNIX-like, open-source, alternative to Micro$oft; take FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, for example. Anyway, any programmer with a reasonable number of adequately functioning brain cells should need no support other than source code. Those who whine about having to create software for Linux or *BSD, and prefer Windoze because of "better support," aren't real programmers to begin with. I don't use the word "developers," because it's a word shared with the nature hating and land-destroying scum who also call themselves (land) "developers." If one can't reverse engineer something and modify it as needed, what's the point in having it to begin with? No, it needs programmers with enough adequately functioning brain cells, but I digress, that's something that biz'droids aren't usually capable of understanding. Why not? Oh, you mean because companies like Micro$oft lose money because of that? -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.