Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 12/18/37 11:25

__/ [rf] on Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:50 \__

Hi Richard,

I hope I did not appear cold in my previous message. It was no intended to
appear this way.

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Richard,
>>
>> Truly... is it not enough to convince that Windows is a Toy O/S?
>
> Er. what?
>
> Apart from the fact that that sentence does not semantically scan I really
> don't know what your point is.


I don't proofread properly, so I left out the word "you" before "Windows". I
placed my reply too far below the text it was referring to, which discussed
the bloated and opaque Windows Registry system.


>> I have run
>> SuSE
>
> What is a SuSE?


It is one of the (if not just "the") most reliable Linux distributions. Els
got it installed quite recently as well.


>> Speaking of which, Vista
>
> Vista. What is a Vista?


It is the next version of Windows (formerly called Longhorn) which is due to
be released in September 2006 if I recall correctly. It is currently in
beta 1, or maybe alpha.


>> will be worse in terms of hardware requirements
>> [1]... much worse, so brace yourself (or spend more money on a new
>> [machine
>> with new software licences).
>
> I don't need to pay for Microsoft for specific operating system licences.
> You *are* talking about Microsoft, aren't you?


Yes, buying Windows-based hardware is rather expensive these days.


> [bill gates joke]
>
>> Stop. *friendly smile* That's from Brad Templeton (at least a variant of
>> it). He hates it when people copy that.
>
> Er, what? I can't tell a public domain joke? :-(


*smile* I know, I know...

Brad speaks a lot about public domain too... in fact, his page on copyrights
is almost enough to pay his bills owing to advertisements.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

And his _very_ recent mentioning of the income aspect:

http://ideas.4brad.com/node/264

Roy

--
Roy S. Schestowitz "Hack to learn, don't learn to hack"
http://Schestowitz.com

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