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____/ High Plains Thumper on Sunday 20 July 2008 03:00 : \____
> DFS wrote:
>> Homer wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> The suspicious death of XP support
>>>
>>> It's not dead, it was never even born to begin with.
>>>
>>> It turns out that XPSP3 was the culprit ... again.
>>>
>>> One thing this fiasco highlights yet again is that any updates to
>>> proprietary platforms are bound to cause utter chaos, due to the
>>> disparate nature of proprietary software that comes from many vendors,
>>> without much (or any) cross-vendor collaboration.
>>>
>>> This doesn't happen with GNU/Linux. Even though most of the software on
>>> any given GNU/Linux distro originates from an upstream third party, it
>>> is nonetheless built and tested on a single buildsystem by the vendor,
>>> and subsequently tested against the rest of the software in that tree.
>>> Therefore things like broken dependencies or conflicts never happen,
>>
>> LMAO! You made a funny, [H]ypocrite!
>>
>>> except where a maintainer has made a mistake in the build spec, and
>>> such things are picked up pretty quickly and corrected.
>>
>> And another one!!!
>
> Microsoft Evangelism philosophy:
>
> 'Use [...] the Internet, etc. to heighten the impression that the enemy is
> desperate, demoralized, defeated, [...] associated with mental deficiency,
> as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny". Just keep rubbing
> it in, via the [...] newsgroups, [...] make the complete failure of the
> competition's technology part of the mythology of the computer industry.'
>
> (reference PDF pages 45 & 55 on
> http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf - Comes vs Microsoft lawsuit )
Microsoft is breaking the law in the European Union. Miss Kroes should take
note.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Useless fact: Women blink twice as much as men
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