From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 2 13:23:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA27493 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:23:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA27486 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA11394 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:23:09 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA17106; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:06:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604022106.OAA17106@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Advice/Recommendation needed To: cat@ghost.uunet.ca (Cat Okita) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:06:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, julian@ref.tfs.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Cat Okita" at Apr 2, 96 01:27:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > A new generation of computer users, with a total lack of regard for what has > > been done by others, yet expect all those same great things to be handed to > > them on a silver platter... > > For which we have Microsoft and other people selling 'vapour ware' to thank Actually, Microsoft simply caters to the least common denominator. The people to "thank" are those that purchase shoddy products because of the company instead of good products because of the product. It's the classic forest/trees problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.