Re: Microsoft jokes and MetBSD

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "SN" == SN Diamond <Norman.Diamond@example.com> writes:

    SN> If you have to use Exploder,

When I was about 14, I decided that when I grew up I would have a
*.ac.* work domain, mostly so that I wouldn't EVER _have_ to use
Exploder.  (That was 1972, so I didn't put it in those terms.  ;-)

    SN> Under Windows 95 or 98 or ME of course,

Is it true that they chose to call it "Millenium Edition" because they
were afraid the company would crash when the version number ticked
over?

    SN> If you let Netscape run long enough it'll bring down Gnome,

I think it unlikely that any platform will get enough uptime that I'll
run Gnome.  :-)

    SN> As usual, the biggest difference between Microsoft and Linux
    SN> is that Linux makers don't get to rob us when we buy a machine
    SN> in the first place.

That's a tiny difference, and in fact, it's quite plausible that the
economies of scale generated by the Wintel platform mean that the
Wintel tax is in fact _negative_ when calculated correctly.

    SN> The second-biggest difference is that, if you haven't lost the
    SN> skills you had 20 years ago, you might have a chance to fix
    SN> the bugs in the sources.

I don't know what petting, necking, and "nampa" have to do with fixing
bugs, but suddenly I'm very interested in getting out of economics and
into computing.  Don't tell my wife.


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