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

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In article <NN2dnTzv5dZFCKPWnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <THs%m.3839$Gf3.3352 at newsfe22.iad>, "John Vottero" <JVottero at mvpsi.com> writes:
>>> <VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message 
>>> news:00A96DAF.7B635EAD at SendSpamHere.ORG...
>>>> 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!
>> 
>> You mean, it's the attribute that makes one of them good.  WEENDOZE can
>> never be considered good; not even poor!  Crap is the proper adjective
>> to describe WEENDOZE.
>> 
>
>You are living in the past Brian!  W/XP is quite usable and I have been 
>using it for several years now.  W/2K wasn't all that bad either.  I ran 
>Windows 2.x so I know what "bad" *IS*!!

Even the newest version -- WEENDOZE 7 Deadly Sins -- looks cheese on the
few I've checked out at the Staples, Best Buys, etc.  You'd think that a
company with all that money could and would hire at least one decent art-
ist to make its product not look pale next to Super Mario Brothers.

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