Those products are for windows, not competing AGAINST the Windows OS. Had those programs been OSs designed to rival Windows, than your point might be relevant. The same thing applies to the Killustator thing. KDE is deliberatly evoking Illustrator's popularity through its name to try to sell their own product that competes against Adobe's product. Its not right, and certainly not mature.
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--Computer Science will continue to lag behind the other sciences--
I might not be correct, but aren't computers one of the main tools to used to further progress in the other sciences?
--... and be the laughingstock of the engineering disciplines if the best they can come up with is Microsoft.--
Are effective, proven, and stable Microsoft products (eg Windows NT/2000) really that bad? (Also, as far as I know, the NSA uses BSD and Linux on their Crays, something you might call a "better alternative".)
It seems as if you want the future now. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but do you have a vision of what that future is? And are you actively working to bring about that future? (Read some stuff about quantuum computing if you're really that interested in the future). Moreover, why do you blame M$, a software developer, for the lack of more advanced hardware than there is today? Microsoft tries to write software to get the most that computers can provide, and I believe they do a very good job at it (bespite the tactics they use to achieve this goal).
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Those products are for windows, not competing AGAINST the Windows OS. Had those programs been OSs designed to rival Windows, than your point might be relevant. The same thing applies to the Killustator thing. KDE is deliberatly evoking Illustrator's popularity through its name to try to sell their own product that competes against Adobe's product. Its not right, and certainly not mature.
A figure divine
Her radiance shadows sun
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--Computer Science will continue to lag behind the other sciences--
I might not be correct, but aren't computers one of the main tools to used to further progress in the other sciences?
--... and be the laughingstock of the engineering disciplines if the best they can come up with is Microsoft.--
Are effective, proven, and stable Microsoft products (eg Windows NT/2000) really that bad? (Also, as far as I know, the NSA uses BSD and Linux on their Crays, something you might call a "better alternative".)
It seems as if you want the future now. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but do you have a vision of what that future is? And are you actively working to bring about that future? (Read some stuff about quantuum computing if you're really that interested in the future). Moreover, why do you blame M$, a software developer, for the lack of more advanced hardware than there is today? Microsoft tries to write software to get the most that computers can provide, and I believe they do a very good job at it (bespite the tactics they use to achieve this goal).
A figure divine
Her radiance shadows sun
The wind is her song