Date: 12 Feb 2001 03:47:53 GMT From: Jack B <jacknopsamhe.net> Subject: Re: Saabs and Homosexuality
Bob <uctraingnopsamanet.com> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 20:13:58 -0800, Guava Baby > <guavababynopsamspring.com> wrote: >>For the moment, but don't forget how hard MS products suck. Even amongst people >>who would *never* go near a Mac there's a lot of (justified) anger and hatred >>of Microsoft and I think that will spur the interest in Linux. > Linux ? Perhaps it will get some following in small corporations > and amongst computer hobbyists at home. You'll never see it become > mainstream for desktop users in either location. Talk to a few > "typical" corporate and home users and tell me they are going > to start using Linux. No way, no how. Bob, may I respond to two of your posts at once? -"PCs run the Internet." Go to Netcraft and see who serves most of the pages on the Web. Take a look at what most nameservers use. What does Microsoft's own 'Hotmail' service use? That's right, *NIX. PCs only run the Internet in the sense that most porn-surfing, MP3- downloading, LOL-TYPIN ALL CAPS AOL USERS, use them. Now, for the above post. A Very Big Blue company is preparing to merge the source trees for its proprietary *NIX and Linux. I know, because I'm working with them. Linux may never become a corporate desktop platform, but the Metaframe-mutated NT/2000 used in most corporate environments doesn't bear much resemblance to Win95. Oh, yeah, take a look sometime at the guts of NT... that's right, it's a dumbed-down *NIX. I despise Windows because it is neither truly useful like MacOS nor truly powerful like a true multiuser environment (UNIX, VMS, others) As Kaptain Killfile said in an earlier post, this is certainly a long way from Saabs - except that Saab people are often Mac people. Why? Both are non-mainstream products that serve their users extremely well. By attempting to criticize Apple, you are like the Honda Accord driver who doesn't understand why someone would pay $10,000 more than his EX-V6 cost for a machine with less horsepower and a small back seat... and why said 'idiot' seems so happy when he's driving. I, from the perspective of my Debian boxen, IBM xServers, and twin-mirrored Sun Enterprise 10000s, am like the tractor-trailer driver doing 90 on the freeway who 'chust wishes bot' them forrun jobs would get out my way" :) > Bob