Re: Breakup of Microsoft

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 18:08:49 -0400

I certainly must agree on OS/2 being the best ever. I have never seen
another desktop operating system that could multi-task like OS/2 could.

I could simultaneously download files from a bulletin board service
(remember them?), be running a defrag, sending/receiving e-mail, and typing
a document. If my scheduled backup were to start, the system would not even
blip! It's was as if there was only one operation going on at the time.

Try that with Windows XP and see what occurs!

Damn! I wish that IBM would turn OS/2 over to the open source community to
see what they could do with it! 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Vagabond Software" <carlfenley-X-@-X-san.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:ukO1mnOHEHA.324@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> You see, I've been around long enough to know why Bill Gates is the 
> richest
> man in the universe.
>
> He was the only CEO of a computer/software company willing to sell an
> average guy like me an operating system for cheap IBM clone.
>
> Steve Jobs would'nt sell me an operating system unless I also bought my
> computer from him.  As good as they are, I couldn't afford them.
>
> When Scott McNealy finally deigned to sell me an operating system for my
> system for cheap IBM clone, he wanted to charge me 1600% more than Bill
> Gates was charging, he forced me into a handful of hardware choices for
> SCSI, sound and video, and his other software offerings would still not be
> compatible with the operating system he sold me.
>
> IBM came out with the best OS of all (at the time), IMHO, when they 
> released
> OS2/Warp.  Unfortunately, IBM would not allow the manufacturer of my cheap
> IBM clone to ship their computers with OS2/Warp pre-installed.  So, only a
> handful of brave souls (such as myself) ever ventured to fork out the $100
> for the complete version (not the OS2/Warp for Windows version).  But even
> those few whithered in a barren wasteland of support limbo.  Now, none are
> left but the few who cling to it out of spite; those that would give up
> their last breath to spit in the eye of convention and conformality.
>
> Those the prices have certainly changed, Bill Gates is still one of the 
> few
> CEO's willing to sell the "little guy" an operating system for his cheap 
> IBM
> clone.
>
> - carl
>
> "Bill Gates" <bgates@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:19b1601c41ce5$9ccdd480$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Citizens of the World:
>>
>> I am Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and the Richest Man
>> in the Universe. By far!
>>
>> Normally, I don't lower myself to talk to the public (I
>> dunno, I guess it's out of some justifiable feeling of
>> superiority), but I'm making an exception now, because the
>> U.S. Government (which is only SLIGHTLY richer than me) is
>> trying to do something very bad for you, the consumer,
>> and, more importantly, for me! It's trying to break up
>> Microsoft!
>>
>> (Incidentally, when I say I'm the "Richest Man in the
>> Universe" I mean the "Richest Man Ever, in History." Just
>> so we're clear on that.)
>>
>> Anyway, right now you're probably saying to yourself:
>>
>> 1) "Whoa! This guy's pretty damn sincere! Maybe I ought to
>> be paying attention to what he says, instead of writing
>> him off as a whining, desperate zillionaire who will do
>> ANYTHING to protect his obscene cash flow."
>>
>> 2) "Who cares if all those rumors I've heard about how he
>> goes for two weeks without showering, and attends board
>> meetings smelling like a garbage dump are true? He really
>> cares about me!"
>>
>> 3) "How can the breakup of Microsoft possibly be bad for
>> me personally"?
>>
>> Well, to anyone who knows the facts, it's obvious that
>> breaking up Microsoft would be horrible for consumers!
>>
>> See, every application we've ever put out contains
>> millions of lines of "source code" - that indecipherable
>> mumbo-jumbo that only the computer (and we here at
>> Microsoft) understand! Most of that source code is there
>> just to get the PC to do what it's supposed to! But a tiny
>> little bit of it is designed to do some extremely
>> interesting things inside your computer, such as:
>>
>> 1) Translate every Microsoft Word document from English
>> into Swahili, or Ancient Sanskrit, or those "Wingding"
>> characters nobody knows what the hell are for!
>>
>> 2) Sign up you and all the people in your Microsoft
>> Outlook Address Book for a non-cancelable three-year
>> subscription to the Microsoft Network!
>>
>> 3) Make your Microsoft Excel program at work siphon off
>> one dollar from everybody else's account into a file
>> called "My-Embzzle$" and then transmit a copy of that file
>> to your boss!
>>
>> Pretty scary, eh? Did those wild-eyed anarchists at the
>> Justice Department even consider these possible
>> consequences to the consumer when they came up with the
>> radical notion of a break up?! I think not!
>>
>> Of course, I'm not saying those things would automatically
>> happen - first we'd have to send out the prearranged
>> signal to your PC from our corporate headquarters - but
>> why take the chance?
>>
>> Please don't misunderstand me - these aren't
>> threats! "Threats" are wrong; threats are
>> counterproductive; threats are liable to get the
>> government even more pissed off at me than they already
>> are! Let's just call them a "technical forecast" from
>> an "informed industry source!"
>>
>> But you have the power to make sure those things never
>> occur! All you have to do is write, fax or e-mail (using
>> Microsoft Outlook, of course) your congressman, senator,
>> governor, mayor, dogcatcher - whatever! - and tell them
>> what a silly, silly, silly idea breaking up Microsoft is!
>> (Oh, and also remind them that we know how to remote-
>> access everything on their hard-drives, too!)
>>
>> In conclusion, let me say: May the "Blue Screen of Death"
>> never visit your Windows-based PC.or at least, no more
>> than it does now (which it won't, if you do exactly as I
>> say!)
>>
>> With all my best-simulated-non-threatening "warmth,"
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill Gates
>> Richest Man in the Known Universe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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