Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:12:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Simon Mendoza <simon_v_mendoza@yahoo.com>
To: fewtch@serv.net
Cc: Marcel Mason {Personal} <marcel@nunanet.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?"
Message-ID: <19980627231242.3481.rocketmail@send1c.yahoomail.com>
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---Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> wrote: > > > On 26-Jun-98 arthur wrote: > > > Yes it is scary, and Tim, I feel you could have safely gotten away > > without using "ficticious" in your above statement, but I'm sure you > > were just playing it safe. > > Not really. There really is no such thing as an "average" anything. "The > average computer user" is a stereotype, plain and simple, and human beings are > too complex to fit perfectly into stereotypes (at least 99.9% are). You contradict yourself here Tim, that is why "standards" are so hard to convey, in fact take a look a Latin, is dead because it regulated itself to exhaustion. Even you didn't stated that MS was a monopoly and also is true that the computer world is not the only world we live in, it is certainly gaining control over our human lives, you obtain goods out of numbers of credits in a plastic card, stored in a computer somwhere, you know whether is right or wrong to go outside your house by means of information obtained through numbers from a computer, you get your income out of information in a computer and this gives you an idea of how we are surrounded by this computer world. This is possible thanks to standards, there's no question about it but to think of it its also a way for humans to copy the power of nature. When someone goes to by a computer, we can not speculate their motives for doing so. But one thing we can say is that MS has a lot of investments due to its success and it is reinvesting its gaining not just to capitalize itself, but to produce more software to earn even more money. Have you seen the word "quality" around?, that is a concern, if we are to state that all users want MS in their computer boxes. > Just to point out, opinions are never wrong or right, simply opinions. > Everyone has them, and everyone has a right to them, even if they disagree with > 99% of everyone else's opinion. Defend your opinions to the death - it's your > &deity-given right to have them! > Here I agree 100% _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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