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From: Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net>
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Subject: An opinion of Win98/Gatesware
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 17:15:26
Greetings Saints in Jesus name!
Here's a pretty decent "anti-Win98/Gatesware" post to an e-mailing
list that I've seen in a long time. Pretty good arguments when
you compare the usability of the different WinDOZE operating systems
to some of the others.... if was a toaster, car, or truck ... people
shouldn't go for it.
This person's response all started with a question....
Bro Tyler
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> What do you all think of Win98?
It's just another way for Bill Gates to get a lot of money from people who
don't know any better. I read recently where Micro$oft wants to sell
WindowsNT as an "embedded" system for things with built-in computers.
Among the machines mentioned were TV sets and medical devices.
Our TV is a small color set Nancy bought about 15 years ago. In that 15
years, all that's ever been done to the TV is wiping it off sometimes. We
plug it in, turn it on, and it works. As it has done flawlessly for 15
years.
I've never used a computer with Microsoft software that stayed functional
for 15 days without having to be rebooted. Why on earth would I want to
replace my TV which works with one from Microsoft that won't work? If I'm
wheeled into a hospital and I see them trying to hook me up to a respirator
that says "Microsoft" on it, I'm wheeling myself back out.
And the worst of it is that many people think *all* computers crash once or
twice a week, so they don't know to demand better operating systems. As a
CS professor, I'm sometimes asked "why can't you guys make a computer that
works?" The answer is "We can. Microsoft just doesn't bother, because
people buy Windows whether it works or not."
A friend of mine once worked on a Novell fileserver that had been up for
over three straight years. Users of Unix systems normally go many months
without having to reboot their machines. The computer I'm typing this on
runs FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org), a completely free operating system.
It has *never* crashed in all the time that I've had it.
What I want to know is how Micro$oft swings this. If you bought anything
else and it didn't work, you wouldn't buy another one from the same
company, right? If your dishwasher sprayed water in the kitchen and didn't
clean the dishes and had to be "upgraded" all the time, you'd get a
different brand the next time around. If my TV stopped working in the
middle of a TV show once a week, I'd never buy the same brand again. Why
do people who've been shafted by Microsoft continue to buy their products?
Bill Gates is the abusive boyfriend of the computer industry: his battered
girlfriends believe that THIS TIME he'll be nice to them, and so they go
back to him, and he beats them up again.
*
I don't know how people from Microsoft can face themselves in the mirror.
Building a solid, reliable operating system is not that hard, and the
company surely has enough money that they could afford to do it. But
because people will buy junk, Microsoft sells it.
Some people may think this is off-topic for a Christian list, but I
disagree. In my view, Microsoft cheats people: by taking advantage of
how ignorant of computers most people are, Microsoft sells them shoddy
products. A discussion of "stealing" done through clever swindles feels
reasonable.
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Bro Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> <tgnally@prairienet.org>
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