[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[John Vottero]

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> In article <CR6%m.10040$0U1.5380 at newsfe16.iad>, "John Vottero" 
> <JVottero at mvpsi.com> writes:
>>"Michael Kraemer" <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote in message
>>news:hhcfhb$6hu$00$1 at news.t-online.com...
>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> MS is just another company trying to make as much money as possible.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are ethical and unethical ways to make money.
>>> It is (almost) always M$ that forces proprietary
>>> formats.
>>
>>Are you suggesting that is is unethical to create proprietary systems?
>>Doesn't that make OpenVMS unethical?
>
> If that's its definition, then WEENDOZE is very much unethical.
>
> I still fail to understand how people mistake ubiquity with openness.

I agree!  Windows and OpenVMS are both proprietary operating systems which 
is one of the attributes that makes them GOOD!