Bill
Apocryphal story:
Bill Gates was chatting with the bossman of one of the Big Three car
makers at the Davos Economic Forum and said that if he were in charge,
he could get the price of cars down to a thousand bucks. The car guy
replied that he could, too, but he wouldn't want to market cars that
crashed twice per day. :-)
Brian
"Kasprzak, Bill (sys) USX" wrote:
>
> Hello folks, hope the new year has been good so far.
>
> I need to respond to items that have been kicked around this forum.
>
> First off, I don't work for Microsoft and I am not a major share holder,
> affiliate etc. I can remember the early days of home computing where we had
> Apple, TI, Commodore, Atari, Osborne and countless numbers of other name
> brands. Each system had its own operating system and none were the least bit
> compatible wit each other. Finally IBM came out with the PC with a whole set
> of models, AT, XT etc. At that time MS-DOS started to become the main
> operating system and software was written so that whichever PC you bought
> you could use the software. The rest is history. Thinking back to those
> times and looking at where we are today is truly a remarkable phenomenon.
> The fact that the Microsoft Windows operating systems developed of the years
> as the "de facto" worldwide standard has enabled all of us to participate in
> this forum. I for one, don't have a problem with Microsoft. If folks are
> having problems with hardware items from Microsoft with Xboxes, Mouses or
> whatever, that's one thing, but it should not result in a forum wide
> slamming of the whole company. (eg Microsloth, Microsuck, etc). If you think
> you can come up with a better operating system, then do it. After all we
> have GM, Ford, Toyota, etc supplying the world with transportation systems.
>
> Bill Kasprzak
> Moog Inc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Seeger [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:11 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [TN] Off Topic:The MoonMan has a "Microsoft Moment"
> >
> > ,
> >
> > What you gents are pointing out are the reasons I've quit
> > using any Microsloth products, for several years. Unix
> > has been very very good for me.
> >
> > Sadly I cannot say the same about our whole outfit, as the
> > office stuff and two of our CAD proggies remain mired in
> > the Windoze world, to my chagrin and that of our Sysop.
> >
> > In fact, maybe some of you could help. If you use CAM350,
> > perhaps you could add your voice to those of us who would
> > like to keep it running on Unix. Perhaps if enough of us
> > call and beg...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> >
> > Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc
> > Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879
> > jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800
> >
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