Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[!smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer)]

>How can you say that Gates has kept quality very high...... Win98 was a
>2000+ bug fix of Win95 and Win2k a 5000 Bug fix of Win98. That's very  high
>quality????? You are easily pleased.
>

Repeat after me:  I believe all the media hype I hear. I am a drone. I believe 
all the media hype I hear.

BTW: Yes, there were bugfixes in Win98, but there was also a TON of new 
functionality. Look under the hood and you will see...

Win2k is a 5000 bug fix of Win98?? Hey moron! Win2k uses the NT kernel/code. It 
is basically WinNT 4.0 with all the features of Win98. Win98 and Win2k do not 
share the same lineage or code base.... understand???


>Whilst it is
>true that later versions of the MacOS tend to get bloated, this can be
>avoided with prudent installations, and it is only Microsoft programs that
>drop all sorts of crap in the system folder without an installer log file so
>you can find it all later. 

Bullshit. All reputable applications these days keep uninstaller logs so they 
can remove any DLL they install into the system folders.


>In general, all the parts of an installation are
>placed with an application in its folder. I was asked by someone why there
>isn't and uninstaller bundled with the MacOS, and when I showed that that
>all you have to do to delete a program from the machine was to delete its
>folder and it preferences, they were amazed.
>


You and I both know that this is NOT always the case with mac software. Stop 
trying to whitewash the issue.



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