[SunRescue] a bit OT but...

[Stou Sandalski]

Its funny that you say this because just yesterday my friend was trying to
convince me that there are subliminal messages in windows. I am actualy
quite shocked that businesses can't see what MS is doing... or maybe don't
want to see... I can't belive that they charge you for teh same product
three times more just because it can support twice the number of processors.
Its appaling that people actualy defend microsoft... the little brown noser
companies that survive only because ms lets them... kind of like those small
colorful fish that travel around with sharks and clean its teeth for food.
I know this is not the list for such discussion but I guess I am sort of
trying to rationalise microsofts actions in my own mind... but it doesn't
work.  Yes I do use windows 2k and ms visual studio but only because I have
to write code for the windows platform.  Oh well ms will meet its maker at
one point or another.


Stou

P.S.
since we were talking about uptime... my database server running linux had
an uptime of 141 days until I had to shut it down to add another proc and
more ram... I can't get more then like 6 days of uptime on my win2k pro box
since after a while of compiling and such it becomes slow and unstable
(maybe the code dev. has something to do with it?)




-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 09:53
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] a bit OT but...



  [warning, a little venting ahead]

On March 15, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Agreed.  I don't think that any of us needs to convince each other that MS
> has questionable business and advertising policies.  The folks that need
> convincing are the people that we work for - and they don't care to
listen.

  Damned suits.  They're all inexplicably "microsoft's minions" in
their own minds.  It's gotten so bad in some places that I've
honestly caught myself suspecting that there are some form of
subliminal messages in the Windoze screens or something.  There
seems to be this "pull" toward microsoft that nobody can
explain...not even the suits themselves.  Question them, or their
platform decisions, and your job is in jeapardy.  Talk to their
underlings with Windoze on their desks and the answer is invariably
"but I *NEEEEED* it!" ...to which my favorite response is "do you
mean you'd be unemployed if it weren't for this product?"

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