From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 30 23:32:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDC337B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:32:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fB17WMR60199; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: Subject: RE: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:32:22 -0800 Message-ID: <000201c17a3a$50a70720$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <00a801c17a33$02c9e0b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >-----Original Message----- >From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:anthony@freebie.atkielski.com] >Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:40 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: chat@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) > > >Ted writes: > >> I've not seen this under Windows GUI -> as >> long as I was running all Microsoft programs. >> There's a reason for that... > >Yes: Microsoft writes better software than most PC software companies, >particularly for Windows. > you mean "only for Windows" The little non-Windows software that they write is atrocious. Also it's easy to do when you don't provide adequate technical details to developers that want to write Windows software. This is after all one of the items that Microsoft admitted to in the anti-trust settlement proposal. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message