M$ is being silly. their primary model is users not nerds. Users like
those I collect jokes about. The kind of jokes we have all heard.
Those people however can still be reached when you tell them about the
latest upgrade or die nonsence built into M$ Works or M$ Office and then
recommend OpenOffice or Star Office. The more we cross compile of our
programs the more we can reduce M$ to an OS only company.
I have ordered a copy of Knoppix which I expect will turn into a great
demo and sales tool as you can use most any machine without installing
onto the drive. I invision a time when that distro will become a primary
toolchest item for consultants etc for drive recovery and antivirus work.
For this decade that is our primary market fellow nerds and even
wireheads. I assume we have hardware diagnostic programs some where
which will make it to Knoppix.
As Winston Churchill said "this is the end of the beginning"
Dont misunderstand their OS is buggy and forever in beta and their addons
are no better.
Thank M$ for its increasing hardware demands which forced the hardware to
evolve in decades rather than a century; made computers into toys for
they toy / user market which provides job opportunitys; for inventing
convient bells and whistles which make computers easy to use.
They have earned their place in history.
The future is ours if we choose to take it.
CWSIV
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:23:40 +0100 Paul Uiterlinden
On Thursday 06 February 2003 16:19, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"In a quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft has confirmed it sees the open-source software movement as a threat to its commercial business model."
So giving Microsoft the Best System Integration Software award=20
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny03/V33/press.cvn?id=3D11&p_id=12
was mainly to annoy them? ;-)
Paul.
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