!Re: Nuke Redmond! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Apr 2000

  "What He Said."

  I was going to respond to Richard's email but you've said it all
here, Zane.  I stand in agreement.

         -Dave McGuire

On April 5, healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
...
   I really
can't understand what all the hostility toward Microsoft is about.
 If it weren't for the low prices resulting from the economy of scale, scale
 which is enabled by the fact that Microsoft made computers simple enough to
 use that the masses could and would use them.  
 Well, in my case it started when I discovered that the copy of Visual Basic
 I bought wouldn't run under OS/2.  This is DESPITE the fact that the box and
 manuals said it would!

 Then there is the issue of *stability*.

 Then there is the issue of *illegal* business practices.

 Then there is that question of innovation.

 Someone mind explaining why if I install software on a Microsoft system or
 make *very* minor changes I've got the reboot the @*& #$)@ thing?!?!

 I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture.

  If you want to dog somebody, the go after DEC,
(God be thanked that they're
 gone!) with their antiquated technology always a generation behind everyone
 else and with their ridiculous prices.  
 Um, you do know that's flame bait in this group, and Microslop roasting is a 
 regular hobby here?  Personally I'll willingly pay more if it means I've got
 stability.

  The only point I've seen in this thread that
makes any sense at all is the
 one about Visual Basic.  If your really want that 6-7 figure income, you'll
 learn it.  I know at least half a dozen fellows who have taken that up.  
 You know, I can't decide if that's a sad comment on the computer industry,
 or the United States.

 			Zane 