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bubaslubas:
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You noticed?
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Yes, I had already suspected the fact that you seem to use your head simply as a hat-holder, but your previous post blatantly stated it. :rolleyes:
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I suppose that when Ford built the model T, no one else should have been able to put round wheels on their cars because it would have been a "rip off", let alone the fact Ford wasn't the first person to use round wheels.
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Thank you for proving me right about Mac-user claims about Windows ripoffs. And for making a fool out of yourself -
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If Microsoft steals everyone elses ideas which cause everyone else to go out of business what innovation will MS have to follow?
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Remember this? :D
Bottom line: you can show what a Linux-geek you are (and it does seems you know your stuff
;) )and you can shit on XP as much as you like, but you can't deny this: Linux is a super-rated shitty excuse of an OS - it maybe fine for running critical web services, but for desktop publishing forget it. Develop some good apps like Freehand or Photoshop (not that GIMP crap) and then we'll talk.
[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: bubaslubas ]
[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: bubaslubas ]
[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: bubaslubas ]
voidmain:
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but you can't deny this: Linux is a super-rated shitty excuse of an OS - it maybe fine for running critical web services, but for desktop publishing forget it. Develop some good apps like Freehand or Photoshop (not that GIMP crap) and then we'll talk.
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I *can* deny that, and I do. Desktop publishing is *not* part of an OS. I can't help if no one has written a good desktop publishing app for Linux (they may have as far as I know, it's not my bag). And frankly, I don't care what OS you use as long as you don't tell me I can't use *NIX like Microsoft is trying to do with all their shit.
In fact I have a *better* idea. Why don't you contribute to the cause and write a good Desktop publishing suite for Linux. It may not make you rich but it would surely make you famous (and it would make you rich too if you choose). Why defend the emporor. Or are you too lazy to pick up a programming manual?
gump420:
Okay, let's get this "who stole what from who" thing sorted out.
The Windows task bar. Basically, since each window in Windows has it's own menu bar the task bar rips of anything in the Mac OS's menu bar that Windows didn't have before. The icons beside the clock first appeared on Mac OS; the Start button apes the Apple menu; the quicklaunch bar is a rip-off from the Launcher control panel; and the active window boxes is, I must admit, a simpler implementation of the the little menu in System 7 that showed which applications were running.
Apple has stolen things from Windows, but they by all means should learn from their competitor. Window tabs in OS 8 and up were taken from the Windows task bar way of showing open windows. Allowing you to "tear off" the menu showing open applications could possibly ape the quicklaunch menu in Windows ('cept that the quicklaunch bar apes something entirely different). Contextual menus have been updated. And the way you access networked devices in OS 8 or 8.5 and up is very similar to Windows.
Saying that Apple "rip-offed" the Dock from Next misses the point; Apple now owns the Dock, a nicety M$ may or may not take action on before ripping something off. Apple definitely did not rip-off the Dock from the Windows taskbar, however.
bubaslubas:
You got me wrong, VoidMain... Nobody's telling you to stop using Linux.
I'm just stating that you simply can't say that XP is a shitty OS when it's a whole lot better than I-don't-wan't-to-support-this-modem, I-didn't-know-that-monitors-with-resolutions-of-1600x1200-existed Linux...
I am not behind Microsoft's policies, but I am certainly behind what seems to be a very good product...XP.
I DO care a LOT about the graphical interface of my OS (thank Apple for Mac OS because pre-XP versions of Win were pure vomit)- it's a regular tendency among non-geek users.
OK, so what's an OS about? Command-line scripting? App developing?
You tend to emphasize Linux's best features; I tend to do the same with Windows'.
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Why don't you contribute to the cause and write a good Desktop publishing suite for Linux. It may not make you rich but it would surely make you famous (and it would make you rich too if you choose).
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OK, whatever. :rolleyes:
How about this: I write that desktop publishing suite and you develop a safe web server for windows. I bet both tasks would be utterly impossible... :D
gump420:
Hey, bubsawhatever - device drivers are written by the hardware vendor; Microshaft just has a habit of collecting them and rolling them into Windows. The lack of hardware support under Linux is not the Linux community's fault; fixing it is what they are famous for, however.
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