Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sun Apr 21 17:59:30 2002

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> And before you take exception to that...if I were to describe to you
> a commercial construction firm that made nice buildings and had a good
> reputation, but they used Volkswagen Beetles to haul their lumber and
> cinderblocks and radio-controlled tanks to do their welding and
> riveting, wouldn't you have something to say about that?

If it works, I wouldn't say anything about it. Except maybe, "Wow! Holy
crap! How did they *do* that!?"

> > Secondly, I have serious doubts that there's a way to write software
> > that is both portable and fully functional in all cases. There are
> > limitations, I'm sure, and the devil's in the details.
>
> I've done it for twenty years. Most of the stuff I've written runs
> on 20+ different operating systems...it doesn't run under Windows, but
> that's irrelevant, because it's one proprietary, non-standards-
> compliant platform that most people in my industry don't use. (See
> comments about "our own worlds" above)

I'll bet your software will compile and run fine under Windows using
Cygnus's stuff.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sun Apr 21 2002 - 17:59:30 BST