Who was it said. "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? Does it have PnP and the same builtin drivers? I might try this one. No...wait! I've got the real thing.
It disturbs me because you are the person who speeds past the school where your kids don't go, ignores a dangerous fault that needs reporting beause it's nothing to do with you and generally sucks everything you can out of society without putting anything back.
When I was at college, most of our work was done on a VAX minicomputer using VMS ( sort of similar to Unix) and Linus was probably thinking about creating Linux.The few PCs we had access to, ran MSDOS. I used Wordperfect for wordprocessing,123 for spreadsheets and so on. I couldn't wait to get home to MS Office where every app spoke to the other, used the same keypresses, had a built-in help and actually used the colour monitor; i.e. it didn't just lineprint to a screen. That is why I chose windows with all it's faults. (will this one be offtopic or a troll I wonder).
The reason I use MS software is quite simple. It works out of the box. I have several PCs. Some run Linux of some description. One runs XP-Pro and Office. It also has a few games and a variety of development apps. That's the one I am using now. The others are for playing with. None of them are online because there are no drivers for my broadband modem, even for the distro which cost 70BP+ (about $100 US) this year. I plugged the modem into my windows box and I was online. Just like that.
Microsoft included windows and msdos av progs ( based on Dr Solomon) in Win 3.1. There is a firewall included in XP. Black Ice used to be heavily pirated. This worm would mainly hit users who did not have the patches in place.
I think you are confusing freedom with licence. Freedom implies responsibility. In any civilised country, it is granted within bounds set by the government. If you don't like it you get to vote against them next election.
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Who was it said. "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? Does it have PnP and the same builtin drivers? I might try this one. No...wait! I've got the real thing.
So! that's what a tree in the desert looks like.
It disturbs me because you are the person who speeds past the school where your kids don't go, ignores a dangerous fault that needs reporting beause it's nothing to do with you and generally sucks everything you can out of society without putting anything back.
Yeah they should have hired the team that looks after the Shuttle. They're not busy just now.
When I was at college, most of our work was done on a VAX minicomputer using VMS ( sort of similar to Unix) and Linus was probably thinking about creating Linux.The few PCs we had access to, ran MSDOS. I used Wordperfect for wordprocessing,123 for spreadsheets and so on. I couldn't wait to get home to MS Office where every app spoke to the other, used the same keypresses, had a built-in help and actually used the colour monitor; i.e. it didn't just lineprint to a screen. That is why I chose windows with all it's faults. (will this one be offtopic or a troll I wonder).
I'm waiting for the article which tells me how to return to windows when Linux doesn't work
I think that this is very naughty of Mr Gates. ( Will this improve my Karma?) Er... exactly what is this Karma?
The reason I use MS software is quite simple. It works out of the box. I have several PCs. Some run Linux of some description. One runs XP-Pro and Office. It also has a few games and a variety of development apps. That's the one I am using now. The others are for playing with. None of them are online because there are no drivers for my broadband modem, even for the distro which cost 70BP+ (about $100 US) this year. I plugged the modem into my windows box and I was online. Just like that.
Microsoft included windows and msdos av progs ( based on Dr Solomon) in Win 3.1. There is a firewall included in XP. Black Ice used to be heavily pirated. This worm would mainly hit users who did not have the patches in place.
For the record I had this idea many years ago. It was called money.
I think you are confusing freedom with licence. Freedom implies responsibility. In any civilised country, it is granted within bounds set by the government. If you don't like it you get to vote against them next election.
I think that being nice to a condemned man is just an extreme case of hedging your bets. Besides, who would read another article criticising SCO.