🚀 go-pugleaf

John Hamilton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:56:27 +0100, Stefan Schmid <stefan...@metronet.de>
> wrote:
> 
> >You do, of course realize:
> >
> >       "..in the end, we all have to pay the big Bill"
> >
> 
> Well, we will have to pay *someone* since nobody is going to give
> us operating systems, APIs, standards, compilers, etc. etc. for free.
> 
> The marketplace is much more in control than you folks give it credit
> for. It votes constantly for the products and producers meeting
> the needs of the marketplace best. The minute Microsoft fails to do
> that, it will be punished by the marketplace.
> 
> Ascribing diabolic attributes to Bill Gates and Microsoft is plain silliness.
> Sort of like the paranoid urban legends of a secret board of directors
> controling the government of the USA. Its funny to joke about, but
> pathetic when someone actually believes its true.
> 
> If you don't like Microsoft, get a Mac or a Sun or a BE (before they sell
> off the last of their hardware) or an HP or a DEC (with unix)  or any number
> of alternative products. If you say, "I can't, they don't do what I need them
> to do" then you've just demonstrated why Microsoft has the RIGHT to be
> where they are. Its the marketplace, stupid. ;-)
> 
> john


While I have always avoided posting to this thread because it seemed
like a stupid spam to the incorrect newsgroups, I just had to here.

Everything above should be stapled to the forehead of every new
"net-sage-guru-wannabe" that comes into the newsgroups and hops on the
"microsoft sucks" bandwagon without a clue as to what they are saying. I
still laugh every time I see these "children" comment about what they
don't comprehend. Any of the older generation understand the state of
the industry before one or two operating systems became dominant. 
Didn't Microsoft invent the word "compatable" ??? :)

Microsoft products are as good, if not better, than their competitors.
The reality seems to be that people are envious of MS's superior
marketing abilities. Also, all the press coverage of Bill Gates net
worth has villified him as some sort of greedy "computer baron". He owns
alot of stock in a company that he created and that company makes alot
of money. End of story.