Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[sheercon@earthlink.net]

>
> As far as Microsoft "forcing upgrades". That is simply not true. If a major bug
> is found in any microsoft product, a patch or service pack is always released,
> and it is almost always free.
>

It most certainly is true; what cave have you been living in for the past 15 years?

> Blame this one directly at me. I don't write software for the Mac, nor will I
> ever. Microsoft supports the developers and the developers write the software.
> Are you saying that microsoft is at fault for making my job as a developer
> easier????
>

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

>
> Lets turn on the time-machine-looking-glass and take a gander at the
> differences between Microsoft and Apple.
>
>         1 -     Apple never introduced a viable developer program.
>                 (APDA DOES NOT COUNT)
>                 Their development tools were ridiculously expensive.
>         2 -     Microsoft gave away SDK's, DDK's.
>                 (unlike apple, where you had to beg steve jobs for attention).
>         3 -     Borland (who never made a Mac compatible compiler)
>                 practically gave away compilers to students.
>         4 -     Microsoft adapted an object oriented API for windows
>                 programming. They standardized it. It made C/C++ windows
>                 programming 100x easier (for standard gui apps).
>         5 -     Microsoft developed an easy to use, accessible language
>                 for the power programmer AND the average savvy joe.
>                 It is called Visual Basic.
>                 Windows TOOK OFF when VB started gaining ground.
>                 Good or bad, 75% of my development today is in VB.
>
>

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..


> >Microsoft has even bought
> >software companies to insure that the software would not be written for any
> >other
> >platform.
>
>         Really, like who?
>

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

>
> Bottom line: The MacOS has lagged behind technically for YEARS.

Again, why are you even in the newsgroup?

> installed
> >on most computers and if you try to run Netscape it causes it to crash in some
> >instances - coincidence?
>
> What a load of crap. Nag messages, yes. Making IE the default browser
> automatically ... yes. But saying that IE can indiscriminately kill Netscape
> while running is absurd.

> Netscrape crashes fine all by itself... that is why I use IE.

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

> >And removing Internet explorer is no easy task for novice
> >users.
> >
>
> Seeing how the explorer and folder browsers contain instances of IE4, it seems
> stupid to remove it in the first place.
>

See above statement.

>
> or are you just repeating the standard media hype....
>

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.

>
> I thought so...
>

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

Think different.