[Ham-Computers] Microsoft Vista in the news

[jeff]

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> First, I couldn't care less about "free".  Nothing worth having is free, 

Your call, certainly.
But I listed other attributes that people consider important.


> including freedom.  But you have just explained and compounded the problem with 
> Linux.  By about two orders of magnitude.  It's far worse than I thought.  I 
> have no idea what Linux-Y is

linuxy, in the sense of linux-like.
It's descended from unix and posix, I believe.  The same programs will 
run on all of them.


> that there are Linux-X and Linux-Z which brings the total versions up to 1200.  
> Or maybe 12,000 depending upon how you figure it.  Forget it.  I wouldn't 
> touch Linux with Slick Willie's Cuban cigar.

As you wish.  I attempted to impart a bit of knowledge and you wish to 
have none of it.

Ok, you got me.  Here I am, trying to use facts and getting nowhere. 
You're making ridiculous uninformed generalizations, each one sillier 
than the previous, and it takes me this long to realize you're just 
having a good time at my expense.  Well done!


> Also, since you brought it up, all of the email clients that run under Unix 
> are Outlook clones.  

This is particularly crafty of you.  I played right into it.
I said to myself that no one with a clue could tell me that Elm and Pine 
are Outlook clones because they're text-based.  No one could possibly be 
that intentionally naive - yet here you are.  This is how I figured you out.


You, sir, are good at this!




Now we can take turns regaling the group with stories of how Windows is 
inherently more secure than any other OS at all.  How you had to give up 
DOS because the version numbers kept going up all the time.  How CPUs 
naturally run faster with a big GUI on top of a command line.  Why 
Internet Explorer is really the ONLY choice....

You silly goose.