Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:46:08 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Did Microsoft give up? Message-ID: <20080221224608.GB22991@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20080221213217.S3608@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <000001c874be$9ae0c850$d0a258f0$@com> <20080221213217.S3608@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>Why do you think hardware producers will like that? > >slowest system, and frequent new versions even slower, requiring constant >buying new hardware Much the same reason IBM like[ds] JCL on main frames. Every time somebody messed it up, it required more computer time on their iron. The army of ``systems engineers'' required to feed the beasts also benefit from the unnecessary complexity. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny ... In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges. -- William Ellery Channing
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