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Article #93629Re: Quit Whining About Piracy
From: Paul R Wendt Jr
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 00:00
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someone said: > They didn't work hard.. Haven't you figured that out? When WIN95 came > out, it was so buggy I went back to DOS.. Now with OSR2 (Which I > couldn't even buy without getting a whole new goddamn PC) I can at > least run a 32 bit environment, but booting up with my LAN takes no > less than 3 minutes, usually around 5 because of Windows problems.. > Apparently Memphis has these solved, but I'd like to see that. Front > Page.. That was a joke.. MS 3D Movie Maker.. That was a half-assed job > at making a program.. There wasn't even an option to import your own > stuff. Flight simulator.. You can land on the water... All of their > games are so goddamn proprietary it isn't even funny.. > Face it, they're doing a half-assed job and still selling everything > at a high price. If they cared about the customer, they'd do more than > just slap together the package just because the release date was > coming near. if you go to a store l ooking for jar of delicious pickles and realize that the pickles you are going to buy have way too much salt in them [you dont like salty food, you see], would you buy them, not buy them, or would you steal them? just because the product doesnt meet YOUR standards doesnt mean that the company/person's product is ripe for the plucking. if that were true, there would be no stores; people would just run around claiming they didnt like anything, getting everything for free. if you dont like microsoft's products, dont buy them! maybe with windows 95, you might feel forced to purchase it ... but for the typical user, the bugs arent really too bad ... at least as far as ive seen; i realize that there will be exceptions, of course. good luck and dont get caught shoplifting --paul wendt -- Remove the +'s in my name. I've had it with spam.
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From: Paul R Wendt Jr <++wen...@interaccess.com> Subject: Re: Quit Whining About Piracy Date: 1997/08/02 Message-ID: <33E39838.180E@interaccess.com> X-Deja-AN: 261782801 References: <01bc871b$622fd560$8c01d1cc@gold-1> <5q12ps$opo@camel2.mindspring.com> <5q4vko$q7m@nntp4.u.washington.edu> <5q5r2c$q4k@camel12.mindspring.com> <5q8oma$i7q@nntp4.u.washington.edu> <33c7ef3c.2760193@news.keyway.net> <Pine.LNX.3.90.970726234210.11133D-100000@aic1.accesscom.com> <33dcfa22.353555916@news.mindspring.com> <33e1161d.6984596@news.intergate.bc.ca> Reply-To: ++wen...@interaccess.com Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider Newsgroups: alt.games,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.command.and.conquer,alt.games.dark-forces,alt.games.descent,alt.games.diablo,alt.games.doom,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.games.quake,alt.games.quake2,alt.games.shadow-warrior MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit