🚀 go-pugleaf

David P. Bowler <dbo...@interaccess.com> wrote in article
<330335...@interaccess.com>...
> 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.
> 
Fuck fucking the browser wars and stop the fucking browser wars.