On 5/15/2011 2:22 AM, Rich wrote:
Jack Stein wrote:
I think it was/is far worse than he discovered, and imo it was not just
MS, but also Intel and IBM and the 3 of them have been in collusion (can
you say cartel) to insure you the consumer can willingly buy any color
you want, as long as it's black.
I don't know what the big deal is.
The big deal is for the past 23 years or so, most of the world has been
running some lame version of the worlds worst operating system on their
home PC.
I've been running linux since 2001 and haven't looked back.
I guess it doesn't bother you that 99% of the software available doesn't
run on linux, or that only a computer geek can possible know where to
get it, how to install it, or how to use it.
I have no worries about getting a virus and haven't since 2001.
I've had one virus with DOS/WINDOWS in about 25 years. I ran a BBS
where the whole world had access to my computer 24/7, including
uploading and downloading files directly from my home pc. One virus,
and that was in the past year. All other virus appearing problems were
NOT viruses, but poor OS design.
There has been times when I got frustrated with software
developers not porting to linux but I lived with it. Most everything is
covered today. I am ****ed that google doesn't build a Sketchup for linux
but I just use my wives Apple. Haven't run windblows in over 10 years and
haven't seen a blue screen for the same amount of time.
Yes, I understand fully. Some people, like you, are willing to swim
upstream to avoid the worlds worst OS. I did it myself until MS and IBM
made the current too much work to swim against. Linux is a nightmare
compared to what OS/2 offered the user. OS/2 appeared like windows and
dos, but, it worked. It ran all the software of DOS/WIN with none of the
problems of DOS/WIN, plus it had a robust, solid OS running everything,
so developers could write awesome software. It only died because IBM
and MS killed it, just when it was attaining critical mass.
UNIX was a super OS and had Bell labs/AT&T developed it for the consumer
market it would have been a good competitor with OS/2. They didn't, and
LINUX, being shareware, has too many problems for the non-geek user to
deal with. There was a time I thought LINUX might do something
worthwhile against MS, but I'm afraid if that ever happens, I won't be
around to enjoy it.
OH, google sketchup is one of my favorite apps.... Guarantee it would
have run under OS/2 as a WIN Program, and twice as good if it were
developed as an OS/2 program.
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Jack
You Can't Fix Stupid, but You Can Vote it Out!
http://jbstein.com