Re: Amelio's ouster

[ballwebr@ENGR.ORST.EDU (Brian Ballweber)]

Brian J. Bernstein (bernstbj@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
:   More or less a big purchasing decision of many users is whether or not
: they can get Office or at least Word on their new computer. Macintosh is
: lucky that they get Word and Powerpoint on their systems. MS's code for
: Word (amongst others) is NOT 90% portable, nor is it even 70% (possibly
: 60%?). This means LOTS of money into development for a particular
: platform, and if they don't think they're going to make a big profit on
: the conversion, they won't do it. No Office, no simple users.

[amiga drivel deleted]

:   Yes, Rhapsody will probably slowly kill Apple if it doesn't have
: support of AT LEAST Microsoft. Rhapsody better at least run old System 7
: software. I love the idea of the new OS, but without Microsoft's
: blessing, they're digging a grave.

Umm, extract your head from Microsoft's butt for a second please.  Let
me see if I get this straight.  Your argument is that the success or
failure of a computer platform is entirely dependent on Microsoft's whim
and whether or not they produce MS Word for it?  

What the fack are you smoking?

Do you seriously think that the world revolves around MS?  If so I
suggest you have a rathar unenlightened view of the world.  Lets take 
your ISP for instance, telnetting to netcom shows:

SunOS UNIX (netcom)

Oh geez, look at that, SunOS.  Hey does Sun have Microsoft`s blessing
to make a new operating system???  Do you realize that your ISP is
based on a company that by your argument is digging their own grave?

Sorry for the condescending remarks, but I'm constantly annoyed by 
people who have such a narrow view of the computer industry as to think
MS is actually in charge of everything.  In reality, MS would like
nothing better than to have the entire industry respond to its
"blessings", but the fact is that it will never happen.

Rhapsody <getting back to the original point> has in fact already
achieved a substantial industry backing.  Fact is that it promises
to provide a strong, well developed OS, which will have both 
cross platform compatibility and wide application support.  And
as far as your wordprocessor argument, I really doubt that
Rhapsody will die for lack of a buggy port of MS Word.


- Brian