Re: [LUG] Windows animosity.

["peterbunce" <peterbunce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't understand why people defend ms (m$?) their programmes are not the
best
and we should be free to use what we want,
for instance this wretched isp (BT) activly discourages use of anything
other than ms

I find the opinion in this email sad as it is in a uni based group
southampton is funded by ibm yet its graduates are also taught about ms

you should know:-

400 of the top 600 companies run ibm (even if they have 98 on their
desktops)
one of our main banks bought 1600 copies of os2 last easter

all American munitions run ibm (cruise missiles run on embeded os2)

ms spent millions on spin to get into naval market and nt servers were
fitted to two cruisers

on test the servers kept on crashing leaving the ships no offensive
capacity, no communications, no steering ---nothing.  the servers were
changed.

windows does not intergrate with other systems, their wish is the reverse,
on eCom (new os2)
I can read win files, not vice versa.

well you asked for comments
regards peter bunce



----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Charrett" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:47 PM
Subject: [LUG] Windows animosity.


>
> I've just got back from a weekend away and have caught up on all the lug
> mails.  It's great to see it growing and people finding it a useful
> resource.
>
> It has however had quite a deluge of (in my opinion), a somewhat strange
> attitude towards Microsoft and it's products.  Don't get me wrong I'm not
> a fan of their somewhat dubious buisness practices but I can't help but
> feel that these regular references to "Windoze", "M$" etc are somwhat
> unnecesary.
>
> To be honest, Windows systems have good and bad aspects, as does
> everything else.  I rather feel the key to the success of any system is
> its ability to interoprate with other systems.
>
> It's long been a concern of mine that there can be a certain air of
> strange superitority surrounding users of systems like Linux and *BSD.  I
> really hope that this isn't putting people off using Linux (as I perhaps
> fear), as I do think it's very good.  In these times however no operating
> system can exist in isolation.
>
> This is just an opinion.  I'd like to hear comments on it if people are
> willing.  I'd rather it didn't turn into a flamefest though.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex.
>
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