Re: [SLE] If Microsoft had built Linux and Linus had then done Windows

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:58:25 +0200

söndag 13 juni 2004 20:10 skrev Sid Boyce:
> If Microsoft had come up with an operating system called Linux, that was
> pretty secure and solid.
> Then some silly guy from Santa Claus land came up with a new operating
> system called Windows that crashed, lost work, was easily infected by
> viruses and worms with the capaity to infect every other Windows system.
> I may be wrong, but I think most people would not switch and sanely so.
> We would not put up with something so obviously of poor design and
> vulnerable. I think we would just laugh it out of court with as much
> ridicule as we could muster.

  Now you are out there in fantasy land, taking a stroll.

  Iff, we wanted stability ... Intel x86 would never have won against mc680x0.
  Iff, we wanted stability ... Unix would have been the desktop, not Windows.
  Iff, we wanted stability ... We'd be living in mainframe land, happy with
our little s3270 terminals.

  The story went quite different ... there were these guys, who sat at home in
their little sellars and built all kind of freeky stuff. And in the end,
people got a C64, a C128, an Apple II, a Lisa, a Macintosh, a PC, a PS/2.
Because we, the individuals wanted our calculators to be as powerful as the
mainframes. And the buisnesses wanted to milk us of our money, by selling us
what they couldn't sell to corporations. Thus, were born the clones, and the
No-name disks. I could buy a Werbatim diskette, but figured out very soon
that the Noname disk was far cheaper and performed 90% as well. I could buy
a Brand new IBM PC, but figured out that the cheaper Noname IBM clone was
just as good, sure granted it didn't have a Basic Rom, but beside that it was
almost quite the same. And manufactures soon figured out to ship a GWBasic
that was "almost" as good as the original IBM basic rom.

  People want everything for nothing ... and companies have a lot of scrap
stuff, that couldn't be sold to corporations and would be trashed, if it
weren't for us who are willing to buy it cheap, or that's what we think.

> I think we would defend the status quo if for no other reason than it
> was what we had becomed used to, warts and all.
> Is this what we see currently, defending the status quo, warts and all
> ?. Would bosses not summarily dismiss any employee caught using Windows
> in prosecution of the comany's buisness ?.
> Hmmmmmmmmmm.........
> Regards
> Sid.
>
> --
> Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer
> ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====

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