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voidmain:
I am starting to think that XP Luser is the best thing that's happened to the Microsoft Eradication Society. Either he is very smart and spews his drivel to spark very good anti-M$ discussion, or he is one dumb cluck that can't get all his ducks in a row. Hmmm.... I mean not one person has ever agreed with him on anything. I honestly believe he must be the former. An anti-M$ genius in disguise.

choasforages:
and he seems to know far too much about *NIX then the average home user.

edit,
besides how does he know that nautlilus is absolute sheet, and konquerer is considered better then most. other then reading or playing with it. you have a good point void

[ June 14, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

Calum:
yes well whatever his opinions, they are not the reason that i despise his posts.

The reason i despise XP Loser so much is that he fills up otherwise sensible threads with inflammatory garbage that make the forums difficult to read.

If he's going to do that, he should start his own topics, and stick to the non-technical threads.

Re: Apple, if Apple had a large market share and M$ had a small one, then they would be two different companies. How did Apple get to be so big in this example? Why did M$ stay so small? are you saying that they tried all their dirty tricks tactics in this fictional world, and they never worked? or are you saying that the hypothetical Microsoft are nice guys and Apple are the bastards?

This is not a good question, it is not intelligent, it contains too many variables to be seriously considered and it wastes people's time.

[ June 14, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

psyjax:
Aww comeon Calum. I think some of the posts generated by this thread are rather interesting, as a matter of fact I would say this is one of the first XP Luser post's that is not inflamatory but rather seeking to see what others opinions are.

My opinion is simply that monopolie's of any kind are not good. And even if Apple had monopoly status, and they were the most benevolent company in the universe, they should still be broken up or restructure themselves.

Monopolie's are bad for the economy and the consumer no matter who has them.

The Czar:
Perhaps if MS had only 5% of the market share, they'd be scared straight and try to produce worthwhile programs for people to buy   ;)  . Just a thought.

You're right, people aren't forced to use Winders, but let me tell you a little story. Way back when, in the Dirty Days Of DOS, people discovered that they could copy programs from disk to disk. This wasn't a huge revelation, and there was really no way to stop it either. Back then, there were no product keys and no product activation to stand in your way. So, people borrowed MS DOS from their friends and copied it onto their computer. Then a few years later, Windows came out, in all its glory **chokes on own sarcasm**. So, these people that borrowed DOS a few years ago, if they had the system resources, decided to borrow Windows from a friend. This continued on until these users couldn't use their old 386's any more and decided to get a shiny, new computer. They toddled off to the computer store and low and behold, what did they buy? A Windows based PC. Why? Because that's what they were used to.

The moral of the story: People aren't forced to use Windows, but, MS would be dead in the water if it wasn't for Piracy. People won't pay MS' retail price for their software, but they will steal it, and they will accept it bundled from the OEM.

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