Re: Boycott Microsoft

[Jeremy Crabtree <crc3419@delphi.com>]

Travis Morien wrote:
> 
> In alt.destroy.microsoft Jeremy Crabtree <crc3419@delphi.com> wrote:
> 
> : I'll say, but look what you could have gotten for $800 less (though, it'll be a
> : bit less of a savings when you factor in the cost of a monitor, soundcard
> : ($40-ish), and Modem ($60-ish I think))
> 
> [snip]
> I'm talking Australian money here.  I shopped around and the comp you
> described is not that cheap in THIS country.

Hmm...what is the conversion rate from Australian currency to US currency?

As a matter of reference, I found that particular machine at
http://www.enorex.com 

> 
> : You (as a programmer) don't magically gain the right to write bloated, slow,
> : inefficient code just because hardware is getting cheaper; to suggest you do 
> : is a cop-out

> I know that.  I am a long time unix fan, but Win95 is great because it is
> so widely supported, and the othr OS's aren't...though they deserve to be
> I am sure.

There are many OSes to do deserve support, or at least a fighting chance to
support themselves. This is hard, however, when hardware manufacturers keep
necessary programming info secret and force developers to pay money and sign NDAs
to get programming info, and then refuse to support it themselves.

-- 
Vive Macintosh, all hail OS/2, Long live the Amiga, UNIX forever, umm,
and all the other systems I didn't mention. We all compute differently,
get over it.                                          Jeremy Crabtree