Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

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

>
>What are you,  a shareholder of Microsoft? Your blatent contempt for anything
>anti-microsoft makes me wonder why you are even in this newsgroup.
>


I am contemptuous towards other operating systems because I choose NOT to write 
software for them? When apple makes software development as EASY and EFFICIENT 
as it is for Win32, then I will start writing apps that port to other 
platforms.

But I am not going to use archaic tools and development environments that are 
technically inferior just because I should "think different".


>
>I won't bother refuting any of this - it would be a waste of time as you are a
>Microsoft drone. You do sound like a spokesperson for Microsoft however, maybe 
you
>should spew your Microsoft propaganda somewhere else where people /might/ 
believe
>it..
>

You wont bother refuting any of it because you dont know any better. Look 
through the eyes of a developer and you see the argument in a whole different 
light.


>
>Like Novell... a company I used to work for.
>


Microsoft bought novell?? Since when? Last time I checked, NDS was a competitor 
to Microsoft, not an assett.



>>
>> Bottom line: The MacOS has lagged behind technically for YEARS.
>
>Again, why are you even in the newsgroup?


I was actually posting to the apple II newsgroup. The macintosh newsgroup was 
crossposted accidentally. My apologies to the innocent mac users... :)


>
>Netscape runs fine on PC's that don't have Internet explorer.
>


I think it crashes more than IE. Who is right here? You or me? I have used both 
browsers extensively. I think Netscrape crashes more. Are you calling me a 
liar too?


>The media "hype" is slanted /towards/ Microsoft. If you want names, go look in 
a
>phonebook. People like yourself have had years of brainwashing and any 
reasoning or
>facts are useless against you - like some Orwellian existance you've been led 
to
>believe 2 + 2 is 5 and the world is flat.
>
>Windows was but a shell around DOS, an inefficient, inferior, bug-ridden, 
slap-shod
>copy of a GUI it wanted to pretend it was. Windows 98 is a better mimic than 
the
>earlier monkeys and a lot of the bugs have been repaired; although some 
replaced
>with new bugs-  it is still crap.
>



FWIW- I hate Win9x. I like WinNT. 

But I have NOT been brainwashed. I have been working in the field for 10 years 
now, and I have yet to see a platform offer so much support for developers and 
users alike as WIndows does. 

Maybe when apple starts putting together their own brand of VB and makes 
writing MacOS software easier, people like me might reconsider our decisions. 
But the honus is on Apple, and not on me.

Give me a stable, robust, easy to use development environment for the MacOS and 
I will use it. Programming is supposed to be fun, challenging, and interesting. 
It is NOT supposed to be painful.


>
>No, that's the problem - you didn't think at all.
>


aue contrare' my friend..... my thought process is most definitely sound.

smentzer@pacbell.net