cat Xerox | Apple | Microsoft ?

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Fri May 22 01:07:01 1998

[last one, I promise]

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:

> to the DOJ. But as far as this discussion, Kai gets ultra-sensitive from
> the MS bashing, and I just don't think its fair to him to turn the list
> into an MS-bashing circle (its starting to happen) no matter how much its
> deserved.

Kai has got to be a multi-millionaire thanks to Microsoft. I think he can
take it (or at least afford to hire somebody to take it for him)!

The ill will many in our industry feel towards Microsoft is no different
than the ill will the rest of the world feels towards the US. We're used
to it, and most of us have the attitude "damn right I have an unfair
advantage being an American, so what are you still doing in [your country
here]?".

> I whole-heartedly, unequivocally agree. But you're discounting Linux.
> I'm surprised. Five years from now Windows' dominance will be a
> non-issue. The world will have been made much more colorful and free by
> Linux. I hope you believe me because I'd hate to prove you wrong in five
> year's time (plus I need to get a win after being called on my "bzzt" for
> being wrong about the origins of Unix :)

Bzzt! Consider this guaranteed-to-happen scenario:

1) Microsoft gets the OK to integrate IE into every person's desktop OS
(even Apple's, dammit!).

2) IE is optimized for certain HTML and HTTP.

3) Only MS-InternetServer (or whatever they call their web server) knows
how to generate the optimal HTTP protocol.

What happens to Apache in this scenario? What happens to Linux once you
can no longer run a browser that knows how to talk MS-HTTP or run a
server that knows how to spew it?

> So why can't these collective developers deliver a bug free OS? I hate
> Win95 with a fucken god inspired passion and zeal. I had a crash on my
> laptop that required me to re-install drivers and shit for my display
> because win95 decided to delete them for some reason. What the fuck is
> that!? Fuck MS. Fuck them and Bill and his ugly wife. Well, that's my
> outburst for the day.

Nice. Now this thread is inappropriate.

Microsoft will do anything to keep whatever API they own in power. For
the last several years, the DOS API still mattered. Linux doesn't care
about preserving nasty old APIs, so Microsoft has an additional burden to
maintain their evil domination :-) And that's one reason Windows sucks.

-- Doug
Received on Fri May 22 1998 - 01:07:01 BST