-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 May 2003 13:37, Oskar Teran wrote: <snip>
well....this all depends on how you look at it. Microsoft used a similar approach against Novell a few years back making winNT look faster on a network compared to a novell server. They purposely made windows listen for requests for novell servers, when they picked that up, they would put the the novell requests into a loop - not a continous loop, but a long enough time that the typical end-user would sense the delay. To the un-informed person.....windows seemed faster! This was documented in the anti-trust trial. Novell made MS aware of this immediately...now long did MS take to fix this? Approx. 2 years!! (not a coincidence!) By then, the damage was done.....people are so gullible!
I agree 100%.
This is the kind of bullshit I hate about microsoft...these tactics they use! We must do a better job of educating people and making them aware of the truth! To me, the performance comparison is a fraud. It manipulates things to look a certain way, the way MS wants it to appear. But it's not the truth! I also don't like the fact the current american gov't (Bush admin) has turned a blind eye to MS's bullshit......I guess it's easy to do that when MS "contributes" [bribes, in my opinion] millions of dollars to the republicans! Last stat. I saw was around $4 million ..... so that's what it costs to "pay off" the anti-trust case...hmmmm.
It isn't *this* administration, it's been *ALL* the administrations that have turned blind eye*s* on M$' greedy, monopolistic, and unscrupulous tactics and business practices. M$ has been "bribing" almost since day one, so don't go blaming any one administration. Clinton had *two* terms and left one of the biggest messes this country has ever had to clean up. There, I got to put in my little political beliefs. pbtpbtpbtpbtpbt!!!
Regards,
jimmo
John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+yFPZH5oDXyLKXKQRAuJOAJ96aatn1pevi4XUqeT0ZDogsIZM9wCcDL1+ QQGpHcozvD0QnPQohU5vRIs= =BFuT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----