isn't it a shame that xmms, KDE, GNOME, Enlightenment, and so on are not available for windows? i don't think so, who cares? Also, may i just say (as an example) that "ipconfig", a DOS tool, is no longer included with win2000 or XP. Useless.
Microsoft spend all their time making sure their product is incompatible with anything except certain versions of windows. They spend little effort (seemingly) on development, and by that i mean debugging.
Also, their closed source model enables bugs to quite happily reside inside Microsoft's products for years, sometimes indefinitely. The longer life of bugs in a closed source piece of software means that there will be a much higher number of bugs present at any given time, and because of the limited number of "developers, developers, developers... et c" (if they are doing their job they are really debuggers), less work gets done.
Let's not even mention the fact that those developers are on a salary and so they have no personal stake, financially or emotionally, in how good a program works in the end.
Compare this with an environment in which as many developers are welcome on a project as want to be on it, and everybody doing the work is doing so solely because of a personal interest in their work.
Economics suggests that it is in Microsoft's interests to produce nonworking and soon to be obsolete products since those products will happily be replaced by those who paid for them once, and always at a high price. It's planned obsolescence, a well known phenomenon of a capitalist economic environment.
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Originally posted by cyrax-:
i have nothing against linux voidman, it is just not appropriate for a network of over 1000 xp laptops, get my drift?
your drift is going in a completely nonsensical and erratic direction. The first half of your first (31st May) recent post is alright, but then you drivel off into moronity again, seriously, all you do is talk shit, it's not even the shit that a real dumbass would say, so you are obviously making it up.
When this forum first started, we got a lot of pro windows morons but this recent rash of fake dumbasses, who are obviously just shit stirrers really get my goat. Are you all Microsoft employees or what? what's the motivation for pretending to be a dumbass online while hiding behind a stupid fake name?
PS, and re: your earliest post from today, learn about paragraphs before you bother posting, please.
[ May 31, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
