Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:43:21 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <200008310143.UAA21647@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:00:25 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008301656200.36730-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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jack writes: > Today j mckitrick wrote: > > > I mean why not use these tools during the development process, on > > non-windows machines, of course? > > Why would they bother? M$ is a marketing company not a > technology company. As long as the masses continue to pay for > their crap in a box they have no incentive to fix or improve it. Some would claim MS *does* use the tools. In this way they control the quality of their bugs to ensure no matter what they do in the next version, it looks like an improvement. Its the old (lack-of) Quality As A Revenue Enhancer ploy. The same thing happens in other professions. For example a weatherman once told me the profession really did know what the weather was going to be one year ahead. But one year is a long time to be out of work. Public school teachers don't dare do as good as they could else see their demands for more money and smaller classes be dismissed. It goes on and on. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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