Re: Loyal Microsoft Fan
From: Sender's name (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/25/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:02:08 -0800
>-----Original Message-----
>Because I don't feel like typing to you anymore because
of the boredom...
>
>- Yup, my friend had a icon/bitmap company, he welcomed
MS buying him out
>for a million bucks.
>- windows media player alternatives, winamp, jukebox,
realplayer, quicktime
>- msn messenger, Yahoo messenger, ICQ, Trillian etc..
>- Email? Eudora, newgroup reader, Forte Newreader etc..
>- Paint, Jasc Paintshop, Photoshop
>- Notepad, various others Docpad, Editpad pro
>
>Again, you have no clue what you are talking about. Get a
clue and
>comeback.. You might even fool us by actually having a
real username on your
>newsreader.
>
>Tom
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Says the obediently brainwashed microsheep named Tom.
>
>"Sender's name" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:1365201c4129b$e44ed920$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Yup, the antitrust lawsuit was raised by who? The Linux
>> community. Pushed
>> >forward to the government by Linux community.
>>
>> Oh, this is rich! The Linux community is the only force
>> behind the antitrust lawsuit?!? If so, then they must
be
>> much stronger than you thought. What about all of those
>> smaller 3rd party software companies trying to make it
by
>> creating products competitve to M$ products who were
>> bought out by M$? What about all of these companies who
>> were run out of business by M$ not only bundling but
>> integrating THEIR software such as IE, Windows Media
>> Player, and Messenger into the windows OS?!? What about
>> all of the consumers (not necessarily pro linux) who
>> actually want a choice to use an OS w/out being forced
to
>> use the crappy bundled software with it?!? This doesn't
>> even begin to cover the separate states who sued M$ for
>> many of the same reasons.
>>
>> >
>> >NT is copying Linux? Ok, explain that. I'm curious. You
>> have no clue what
>> >you are talking about.
>>
>> It's true, Windows NT was based off of the VMS OS, which
>> has many *nix like features in their earlier stages. NT
>> also claimed to have POSIX support.
>>
>> Pick up a few books. Linux and Windows have zero
>> >similarity and it is Linux now that is copying
Windows...
>> re: KDE, re: Gnome
>> >re: Lindows on and on..
>> >
>> >Windows blows unix and linux out of the water because
of
>> two things.
>> >Usability & availability.
>>
>> OK, what about the fact then linux blows windows out of
>> the water by price, availability, and security?
>>
>> Linux even with all it's GUI's fails to even come
>> >close to offering the flexibility and ease of use
Windows
>> has.
>>
>> You obviously have not used linux then.
>>
>> >You have to be completely blind to not see that.
>>
>> I agree, completely blimd not to see that linux is easy
to
>> use and that it out preforms windows in all of the above
>> things and more.
>>
>> >Are you going to get your grandpa to go
>> >to a store and buy a linux box? I don't think so.
>> >
>> >If you build a car and it kicks the crap out of
american
>> and imports in
>> >sales and everyone begins buying your car and the
>> government turns around
>> >and says, start putting in Hyundai and Toyota and Ford
>> engines in your car
>> >or else, what are you going to do about it? And I guess
>> the first company
>> >who put a radio in their car and everyone else followed
>> suit must be bad
>> >too! Oh and wait, what about the electric heated seat?
>> >
>> >Microsoft has a right to do what they want with their
OS.
>> It's uneducated
>> >people who think otherwise. It's common sense.
>>
>> I agree that M$ has the right to do what they want with
>> any of their software, so long as the convited predatory
>> monoploy they are don't go breaking any more laws over
it.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> >
>> >"Sender's name" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote in message
>> >news:1094e01c4128b$a16b89b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> >>
>> >> >-----Original Message-----
>> >> >BS. There is Linux(many flavors many GUI's),
Solaris,
>> >> Apple, AIX
>> >> >
>> >> >Wake up.
>> >> >
>> >> >MS is where they are because they continue to
innovate
>> >> their product,
>> >>
>> >> Yes, wake up! M$ "innovates" their products by
trying
>> to
>> >> copy their competitors (just like when they built
>> Windows
>> >> NT trying to copy unix or linux OSes, and did a very
>> >> crappy job of it)and buying out any and all competing
>> >> companies who innovate features and products that
would
>> >> blow any M$ product out of the water!!! Remember the
>> >> antitrust lawsuit?!
>> >>
>> >> listen
>> >> >to customers and continue to add features to their
>> >> software. If Linux
>> >> >Torvalds got his head out of his a$$ and organized
his
>> >> contributers to work
>> >> >hard to make users have to use the command prompt
less,
>> >> his operating system
>> >> >would stand a chance.
>> >>
>> >> If you and Bill Gates got your collective heads out
of
>> >> your a$$es, you would realize that there are flavors
of
>> >> linux out that require little to no command line
usage
>> >> from users. Oh, I almost forgot, Bill can't actually
>> fit
>> >> his head up there since your nose is hogging it all.
>> >>
>> >> Also, it's not Linux Torvalds, it's Linus Torvalds,
>> rofl!
>> >> If the linux contributors were to "work hard to make
>> users
>> >> have to use the command prompt less" than the little
to
>> >> none they need to use it now, they would have a
>> >> overbloated, insecure, bug-ridden POS just like
Windows
>> >> xp, but it would still be better becuase there would
be
>> no
>> >> product activation, and it would still be free!!!
PMSL
>> >>
>> >> The only people I know to have made the effort on
>> >> >Linux is Apple with OS/X. IBM quit with OS/2 and
they
>> did
>> >> that because they
>> >> >killed their reputation with release of OS/2 Warp.
>> >> >
>> >> >Nobody holds a gun to your head and tells you to run
>> >> Windows and in my work
>> >> >place I have the choice of running Linux or
Windows. I
>> >> choose Windows. Note
>> >> >"I" chose Windows. Same applies to millions and
>> millions
>> >> of others.
>> >>
>> >> If you have such a choice in your workplace, then you
>> are
>> >> one of a very few. True, noone puts a gun to your
head
>> to
>> >> make you run Windows but if you "choose" to run
Windows
>> >> XP, then Billy boy holds the "PA gun" to your head,
>> >> including those who have paid for the software. Not
to
>> >> mention that for years and years, since Windows 3.1
in
>> my
>> >> memory, M$ has made their software easy to pirate in
a
>> day
>> >> and age when most people don't even know they are
>> pirating
>> >> or that such a thing as pirating of an OS exists. MS
>> knew
>> >> what they were doing then, and now they have their
>> >> monopoly.
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >Tom
>> >> >"Gordon" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> >> >news:eAD2gpkEEHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> >> >> "Spiros" <s3508193@students.vu.edu.au> wrote in
>> message
>> >> >> news:887E3F70-E5EF-4AC3-B67D-
>> >> 9CA7335E11C3@microsoft.com...
>> >> >> > Hi,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > My name is Spiros and I'm appauled at everyone
>> trying
>> >> to get at
>> >> >Microsoft
>> >> >> as to how they develop and release their OS and
>> >> applications.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I believe that it is the user's choice as to
them
>> >> buying the software.
>> >> >If
>> >> >> they don't want it, then they don't buy it. It's
>> THEIR
>> >> CHOICE.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Due to MS near-monopoly, there IS no choice.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >.
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>
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