On Saturday 09 June 2001 08:47 am, you wrote:
> I love it. Bring it on.
> Microsoft attitude is bordering that of Ford Motor in 1920. You can have
> any color you want as long as it is black.
> But! It seemed that other people had other ideas and Ford's dominance of
> the motor car slipped into oblivion as these people formed General Motors.
> The next chapter in the sags was that Ford almost went bankrupted in the
> '30s. So lets see now: high prices, domination of what you may look at,
> social control of viewing, collaboration with entertainment companies, and
> the list goes on. The only two reasons that people put up with this is
> technical ignorance and the lack of a viable alternative. I know most of
> you think Linux is the greatest. It is for the technical savvy and you
> would not be on this list if you were not technical savvy but what about
> the poor technical illiterate which is what MS users are.
as linux beccomes easier and easier to use for most people,
it will be just ballmer said, a cancer on them.
by the way i read the other day that kernal 2.4.1 has been
released and supposedly with a graphical interface.
anyone checked it out yet ?
> Oh, back to the Ford motor company saga. The switch from number one total
> dominance to irrelevance happened almost over night as General Motors
> brought out a different line of cars.
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
> On Saturday 09 June 2001 07:31 am, you wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19573.html
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