From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
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> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> > Bollox. You earn your living from MS. No MS products to build off &
> ...what
> > happens to tthe value of your skills?
>
> Software development skills are portable. I used to earn a living from
Unix.
> It would be  nice if Unix could move into the 21st century, but I can
still
> do vi.
>

Mention my pet hate hoping for sympathy 

> > For me that's great as I want to see proper OS competition as I think we
> > (the OS consumers) will all benefit & frankly I care about me much more
> than
> > I care about MS or any other OS maker.
>
> I'm far from convinced that 'proper OS competition' as you define it is a
> good thing, there will always be a tendency to swing to an industry
> standard, artificially maintaining 'proper' diversity of an arbitrarily
> defined layer of software is likely to be repressive rather than
liberating.
>

I think the network basically renders the OS down to the network services
it can/does provide. Hooking into SMB running on Linux or whatever &
hooking into SMB running on Windows is one example.

> > I would love to see a plethora of PC form factors running a plethora of
> > OS'es. I wouldn't want to see a 95% Linux domination any more than a 95%
> > BeOS or a 95% Windows domination.
>
> Why?
>

Because the PC as a piece of standardized piece of commodity hardware is
the industrial way. I also think that one OS is to choice & innovation
what a one party state is to developing good political ideas.

> > Would you view the various laws the Software industry has had pushed
> through
> > re "copyright theft" etc as "state
assistance"? I certainly would &
those
> > provisions are still in place.
>
> Obviously the state assistance I was referring to was the use of
> inappropriate anti-trust provision against one business by others with the
> help of political appointees. But your examples of 'copyright theft' are
> good. It's all inappropriate and protectionist.
>

Ah OK.

> > Why read & respond to a posting entitled "why IE became
popular" which
is
> > obviously based in conjecture & where the views are obviously going to
be
> > subjective?
>
> Because I felt like it. But almost every post Mike and Joe make is
negative
> spin. It's boring.
>

True & should be in technoids....but Joe doesn't post much in NThelp.

Adam

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