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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/14/2012 8:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 8:12 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article<4fb19cb6$0$282$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> On 5/14/2012 1:06 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>> In article<tr6dndBwLpjxqizSnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard
>>>> B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>>>> {...snip...}
>>>>>> There is much better software and, in many cases, it's free; so
>>>>>> why _DO_
>>>>>> people want to pay for Micro$oft crap?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because it's ubiquitous and it works. You may complain about "click
>>>>> and
>>>>> drool" interfaces but they work and millions use them. The
>>>>> alternatives
>>>>> are???????????????? If there are any, they are hard to find,
>>>>> expensive,
>>>>> .. . . . It's practically a given that Brand X is
>>>>> not compatible with Brands "Y" and/or "Z"!
>>>>>
>>>>> You have available the three "Killer Applications": Spreadsheet, Word
>>>>> Processor, and Database.
>>>>
>>>> I have better alternatives on my Mac and on Linux.
>>>
>>> You have some alternatives that you like better.
>>
>> No, they're better.
>>
>>> But apparently the majority of the consumers has other
>>> preferences.
>>
>> The majority of consumers are morons.
>

More than forty percent of the population have sub normal intelligence!
(My favorite statistic.)