On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:16, Rich3800@aol.com wrote:
What I like about Microsoft is that Microsoft is only a tempory phenomenon, a business aberration, a bump-in-the-road. In a few years, people will think back and laugh and say "Microsoft? What was Microsoft?" people will be hard-pressed to even remember what Microsoft was and meant.
I disagree.
Have you seen the released the windows 2000 and NT source code?
Their quality was excelent, except for the hacks they have done because
of 3rd party software and their own software like MS Access and Windows
Media Players.
I saw the source. I'm a programmer for a few years now, and a programmer
is a programmer, whatever OS they are working. Like everything in life,
there are good and bad programmers.
For me that i work with Linux RedHat 9, SuSE Linux 9 Pro, Slackware
Linux 9.1, MacOS 9.2.2, MacOSX 10.3 Server, Windows 2000 Server and
Windows 2003 Server and windows XP Pro as clients, and MacOS 9.2 to 8.5
as clients (all at the same company)!!!, cause of the upgrades and new
services), i know from a professional point of view that all of them
have their weak and strong points, (ALL of them)
I work for a newspaper, and there was always a flame-war cause of
windowz vs mac, then when i entered in the company i brought LINUX!!!
Now we are using a multi-faceted environment with all the capabilities
of the strong points of the OS choosen to do certain tasks.
Sorry, it's only my €0.01 cent to this mailling list.
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Luis Miguel P. Freitas