On April 21, R. D. Davis wrote:
> > Hmm...I sense some Microsoftism on the list...
>
> Yes, all of the danger signs are there, as well as the problem of
> otherwise intelligent hackers who've become subservient to the greedy
> and nonsensical biz'droid lusers in large corporations --- who are far
> worse, and far more dangerous to society, than they're portrayed in
> the Dilbert comic strip. We must liberate these hackers who've been
> brainwashed into subservience by the biz'droids, so that they can get
> back to useful hacking on useful systems.
I just try not to associate with them. :)
(The guy sitting across the room from me is writing some firmware for
the project we're working on. A $2000 commercial 8051 C compiler (for
Windows of course, the land of commercial software) just crashed
because a function in the code it was compiling wasn't prototyped. If
this weren't commercial bullshit, I'd have the source code, and I'd
have fixed the bug in ten or fifteen minutes. But noooooo, that bug
will be there for at least the next year. Some people just like
commercial crap...I will never figure out why.)
But there's a pattern with the Windows folks...they're often people
who tend to do what they're "supposed" to do, and you're "supposed" to
use a PC and run Windows on it, so that's what they do. The decision
was made for them and they won't question it.
The whole "blind rule-following without thought" is a lifestyle that
people assume by choice or upbringing...there's nothing wrong with it
per se; we can't really fault 'em for it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 10:46:47 BST