[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2012-05-14 01:12:
> In article<0rCdnXNUn4uPfTLSnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>> On 5/13/2012 6:20 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> DEC/CPQ/HP did not ruin your career.
>>>>
>>>> The guy that told you 25 years ago that it was a good approach
>>>> in the IT business to learn one technology and stick to that for
>>>> life did.
>>>
>>> And what if he'd recommended Weendoze?
>>>
>>>> It is not the case. Technologies come and technologies go all
>>>> the time.
>>>
>>> So when can we expect M$ to go away?
>>>
>>
>> When you write better software and charge a lot less for it!
>
> Micro$oft: premium priced shite software.
>
> There is much better software and, in many cases, it's free;

Probably hard to find anyone willing to pay to marketing it,
when there is nothing in return to pay for it (the marketing).

> so why _DO_
> people want to pay for Micro$oft crap?

Probably becuse of the same reason we buy anything, we
belive it is what we want and need, so we buy it.