From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:59:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:59:07 -0400 Received: from [194.213.32.142] ([194.213.32.142]:8708 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:58:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20010629000255.B525@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:02:55 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jesse Pollard , lm@bitmover.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself. In-Reply-To: <200106211300.IAA40817@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <200106211300.IAA40817@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>; from Jesse Pollard on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:00:25AM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > I'm unimpressed with what Microsoft calls an operating system and > > I'm equally unimpressed with what Unix calls an application layer. > > For the last 10 years, Unix has gotten the OS right and the apps wrong > > and Microsoft has gotten the apps right and the OS wrong. Seems like > > there is potential for a win-win. > > I'm equally unimpressed by their applications - how many macro viruses > exist? How do they propagate? How many times do they change file formats? > How many patches are (re)issued to "fix" the same problem? > > The biggest improvement would be that users could remain with a version > that works for them and NOT be forced to pay more money for the same > functionality (watch out for the XP license virus... also known as > a logic bomb). What is XP license virus? Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org