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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:23:12 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More Microsoft news... 
Message-ID:  <200111160123.fAG1NCU54505@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>  of "Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:08:59 PST." <3BF420DB.3CACB2C6@mindspring.com> 

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Terry Lambert writes:
> Rick Hamell wrote:
> > 
> >         And this one is worth a laugh... Apparently Microsoft is going to
> > save America from this economic recession!
> > 
> > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2823984,00.html
> 
> The comments on pen computing are incredibly stupid.  Why does
> everyone believe that there is an evolutionary path between any
> two species, and that revolutionary change can always be built
> slowly with evolutionary "baby steps"?  That's like claiming
> that if you mofy birds slowly enough, you will evntually get
> rabbits.

Not everyone. Just Bill Gates and MS. After all MS has never done
anything revolutionary, it always takes at least 3 versions (of
evolution) to get something working half right.

If MS wanted to be revolutionary they would have dropped DOS a long 
time ago.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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