I followed this discussion a little bit, but don't where the starting point
is... never mind. After reading the last ten or twenty messages with the same
topic, I would like to agree to Mikulas.
1.) I think Bill Gates was, is and will be what we call in German "Abstauber" or
"Trittbrettfahrer" (excuse me, I don't know the english words for them), because
a long time ago (I read it in the intro of an OS/2 book), he buyed some sources
for (I think to remember) $20.000 and the sources were called DOS...
2.) I remember the times of the IBM PC-junior with 4.77 MHz and 256 kB RAM... it
was slow, if you think of, but it worked. In our days you need a Pentium
4235987759769587 with 57408953406745096856 GHz of speed and a 10943094430 TB hdd
to write a letter... if you are using... (you know) and you have to hope that it
will work once a time...
3.) I remember that the number of hotlines for supporting the user (or the users
problems?) increased very fast after the first release of w95...
I believe, porting any m$-software to linux will start the same silly
hardware-upgrading again.
Dietmar
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > MS sees a peice of technology as a threat to their monopoly.
> > > They try to muscle in and kill it.
> > > If they can't kill it, they buy it.
> > > If they can't buy it, they infiltrate and attempt to seize control of it.
> >
> > Well the Federal Government hasn't been able to prove this so I doubt
> > that you can either.
>
> You see what M$ already did. They destroyed dr-dos (windows 3.1 beta
> detected dr-dos and displayed a stupid error message). They tried to
> destroyed netscape. For example: some micro$oft registry clearing program
> (I don't know the name) damages registry so that you can't display
> preferences in netscape4 (I really saw it). It's quite effective - when
> the user clicks on "preferences" after long time, he doesn't notice that
> the error is because of M$ registry cleaning. He simply says that netscape
> is shit and switches to explorer.
>
> Now they're going to destroy linux :-(
>
> Windows installation programs generally put garbage to registry, modify
> autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini and other config files and copy a lot of
> dlls to windows/system directory over the original ones. And many of these
> programs do it without asking the user.
>
> So what do you think the MS Office instaler for linux will do? Installers
> are run with root privileges, so they can do what they want. It will
> surelly create a lot of waste over the whole filesystem, modify existing
> config files so that some programs stop to work and overwrite the
> libraries in /lib and /usr/lib with Microsoft(r) versions.
>
> They can't stop linux working immediatelly after installation of MS
> Office, but I_am_sure, that the installation will make linux or some linux
> programs unstable and unusable.
>
> And the user says: "grrr, that linux is shit - when I run Office on
> Microsoft Windows, it doesn't crash so often".
>
> Mikulas Patocka
>
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