Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:05:45 -0700 From: "Pedro Giffuni S," <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated... Message-ID: <34039989.2770@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <199708242230.PAA13822@merchant.tns.net>
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Here is an alternative view to the M$ problem seen by the former Autodesk president: http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/msapogee.html in particular I enjoyed: _____________ When I look at Microsoft's current product line (which I avoid doing as much as possible, I must confess), the problem is not that it lacks features--God, most of it has way too many features for its own good, and I suspect 90% of the users never discover nor use a majority of them--but that it is bug-infested junk. What users need is not ActiveXYZ, the NanoGenetic TransSpecies API, etc., etc., endless etc. but software which works properly and does not crash. Jamming 1.5 megabytes of roach-motel USER and GDI code into the kernel of NT 4.0 to "improve performance" shows Microsoft lack the basic competence and/or willingness to provide a reliable operating system. And that has been a solved problem since the 1960's. Now they're going to sell us a global distributed component model secure multi-platform multi-media object oriented operating system. Right. ______________ enjoy, Pedro.
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