OT! Re: Nuke this off-topic flamefest!

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Jan 13 02:20:43 2001

It's just the American way of doing business. Detroit's been doing it for
50 years. Get over it!

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Braun" <nerdware_at_laidbak.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: OT! Re: Nuke this off-topic flamefest!


> > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> <<snippage>>
> >
> > It says all you ever did with your laptop was run a communications
> > program, and that is a very simple task for Windows to perform on a
> > sole basis. Open up 10 other applications concurrently and use them
> > actively, then see how Windows holds up.
> >
> > If this is what Microsoft thinks the consumer market will tolerate,
> > and the consumer market does tolerate it, then who holds the shame?
> >
> > Sellam Ismail
>
> Amen. A lot of the blame for Microsoft's dominance (aside from the
> illegal predatory tactics) lies in the fact that the buying public has
> just accepted substandard, buggy products for years, and
> continues to do so. I've seen quotes from Ballmer that said "We'd
> rather ship a buggy product on time, and fix it down the road, than
> miss a ship date." The kind of errors and bugs that ship in MS
> "final" products would bring scores of lawsuits and bankruptcies in
> any other industry, but the computer-buying public just says, "I
> know it's buggy and not really finished. I know it'll cause problems
> and probably isn't compatible with my other software. That's OK.
> It's from Microsoft, so I have to have it because it's the latest
> thing...you just go ahead and fix the flaws when you have time.
> Here's another boxful of cash. Oh, and while you're at it, let me
> know when the next beta is out, and I'll send you another boxful of
> cash for that, too."
>
> It's a great business model. If the automotive industry could get
> away with selling partially-finished, problematic cars for full retail
> price, and demand that you pay full price for a new one every two
> years, don't you think they'd do the same thing?
>
> That's the only thing Microsoft has "innovated". All their products
> are bought, stolen, reverse-engineered, "borrowed", or otherwise
> derived from someone else's work. The ability to sell crap, and sell
> it consistently, while gaining market share and making more profit
> than half of the world's countries put together, is true marketing
> genius. They've gotten everyone to say, "Yes, sir. May I have
> another?"
>
>
>
>
> Paul Braun WD9GCO
> Cygnus Productions
> nerdware_nospam_at_laidbak.com
>
> "A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without a
bunch of bricks tied to its head."
>
>
Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 02:20:43 GMT

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