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Also sprach Jasper Janssen: : <devil's advocate> They didn't steal windows. They stole the "look 'n' : Feel" of windows. (sound familiar? :) ) Anyway, The company they stole : it from also stole it from someone else, so why they even _bothered_to : (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Shouldn't that be "the Windows buyer gets the bugs"? I just worked with MacOS and I was impressed! After a whole days work, I didn't get a single ErrorMessage, BSoD or Dr. Watson!!! This is proof: it CAN be done right! (Please mr. Gates. Steel (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh I don't know... "640k ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1983 or thereabouts.... Of course, that was later, so your statement still stands :) (...) Possibly. Tho personally, I find the apple UI somewhat worse than the current (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Linux isn't stable because it's an open source project. It's not portable, it's not scalable, no one uses it for anything serious, and it'll soon be in violation of the standards as soon as Microsoft invents them. Microsoft invented the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I just thought I'd mention that VB is my personal bogeyman of the moment. I very much prefer a scripting language that has meat to it, such as Perl. Having said that, I just read something that chilled my blood. Evidently, PC Magazine named (...) (26 years ago, 22-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, it isn't stable because it's an open source project. It's stable because it's stable. (...) Not portable huh? Did I see Red Hat on Intel, Alpha, PowerPC, and some others? not serious? How many ISPs do I know that use Linux as their *nix (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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