Unofficial Windows98SE Patch

usrid0 writes "A service pack for Windows 98 Second Edition has been released. Big deal, right? It is if it doesn't come from Microsoft. "

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Don't worry

[Anonymous Coward]

You are not being pedantic in the slightest. You are being a small-minded, knee-jerk reactionary.

Had you bothered to check, you would have learned that English is not his mother tongue. Even someone too lazy to check, but with average intelligence, would infer that from the types of errors that he made. It is clear that you lack one of the key ingredients of a good engineer and substitute it with arrogance. I'd be more concerned about something from a person like you, who thinks he knows it all and doesn't have to do the work.

Microsoft chokes one up again...

[SphericalCrusher]

And yet, Microsoft sticks their foot in their own mouth once again!

In reply to Open-Source, and just Linux in general, Microsoft stated that Open-Source developers were in no way, shape, or form in comparison to Microsoft's developers, simply because they have had more training in programming. Despite the stability of Linux, Microsoft tried to brag to the world by saying that their programmers were a lot more experienced. In situations like this, we just get to see where Microsoft talks directly out of their ass.

As I have said before. Microsoft only has a set number of programmers. Even if they are ALL highly-qualified and skilled, I'm sure there are more in the world. After all, The World > Microsoft -- I'm sure, due to the odds, there will be more people in the world that are more skilled than Microsoft's developers, simply because there are more of them! It's a 7 to 1 ratio (if not more).

For people not understanding my metaphorically speaking, I was not saying that this has anything to do with Open-Source Software, but that it shows that programmers not employed by Microsoft have skill also -- possibly way more than Microsoft's programmers have.