From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 05:02:19 MST
John K Clark wrote:
>"Charles Hixson" <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
>
>
>
>>Yes. I believe that Mr. Gates has been a net detriment to the computer
>>community.
>>
>>
>
>That is the politically correct view and it is also utter nonsense, I admire
>Bill Gates.
>
As quite a few very well informed and highly contributing people in the
software community are of that opinion, it can hardly be dismissed as
"politically correct" or "nonsense". Such simplistic dismissal casts
serious doubts on your own thinking on the matter.
>Obviously if you were starting from scratch lots of people
>could make a more stable, more elegant, system than Windows, but
>Microsoft didn't have that luxury. Everything they made had to be
>compatible with everything they made before, and they had to do it
>during a time when computer hardware became thousands of times
>more powerful.
>
This is utter bullshit. MS started with one of the first OSes for
microcomputers ever made. There was almost nothing to it. They did not
have to be compatible with it in the least. There was no restriction
really except later on some need to be moderately compatible with their
own previous krap. But they have freely departed from such
compatibility many times. The increasing power of the hardware was
systematically wasted by Microsoft.
- samantha
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