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Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS

by "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aug 8, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Jack Stein wrote:
> Tom Watson wrote:
>
>> IMHO the single best thing that Gates & Co. did was make everyone
>> speak the same language.
>
> No, that's not what he did.  He did make most people, particularly 
> the
> most vulnerable people use the worlds worst OS to run their programs
> on (horrible memory protection) and store their files on (horrible
> file systems)  His operating shell (windows) is a horrible interface
> that is hard to work with, hard to analyze, and simply sucks.
>
>> Anyone who remembers trying to pass business files back and forth
>> before de facto standardization by msft doesn't miss those days 
>> even
>> a little bit.
>
>> Please email me if you disagree and I will get back to you with an
>> attachment - written in WordStar 1.
>
> I disagree completely.  The only compatible files amongst 
> applications
> are text files.  If you think MS Word files are compatible, or Excel
> files are compatible with other applications you would be wrong.  If
> you think things are great because EVERYONE is pretty much stuck
> using Word, then you probably think the world would have been better
> off if Hitler won the war and we were are forced to drive 
> Volkswagens.
>
> A good example of compatibility is what this very thread is about.
> Usenet, email, HTML is all open source where anyone can write an
> application such as Thunderbird, Firefox, OE, IE.  When they write 
> the
> apps, they are expected to meet the protocols so everything works.
> Gates has always SCREWED up his code to NOT conform to the standards
> hoping to force everyone to use his crap, just like everyone is 
> forced
> to use his OS's.
>
> Yes, Gates has gone a long way to make EVERYTHING incompatible and
> forcing everyone to speak HIS language.  This is BAD in itself, but
> whats even more grating is his language sucks and barely works.

I do hope you realize how _boring_ this crap gets the 47,000th time 
you've heard it.



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--John
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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
 




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FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Swingman" <  2008-07-28 07:47:04 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
LRod <duckecho@[EMAIL   2008-07-28 13:35:42 
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"Swingman" <  2008-07-28 09:28:22 
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ROY! <in@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-07-28 13:26:24 
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spambait@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-07-28 18:54:39 
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"Swingman" <  2008-07-28 15:17:42 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
ROY! <in@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-07-28 16:26:11 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Swingman" <  2008-07-28 16:46:10 
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Tom Watson <notme@[EMA  2008-07-28 22:16:23 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Swingman" <  2008-07-29 08:01:24 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Tom Watson <notme@[EMA  2008-07-29 09:05:37 
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mac davis <mac@[EMAIL   2008-07-29 08:02:58 
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Tim Douglass <tdouglas  2008-07-29 15:34:44 
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"Swingman" <  2008-07-29 18:07:41 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
mac davis <mac@[EMAIL   2008-07-30 11:02:21 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Mark & Juanita <no  2008-07-29 20:17:00 
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"Swingman" <  2008-07-30 05:55:26 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-04 10:10:32 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
mac davis <mac@[EMAIL   2008-08-04 10:23:05 
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"Swingman" <  2008-08-04 13:38:54 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Lee Michaels"   2008-08-04 20:24:52 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Tom Watson <notme@[EMA  2008-08-06 18:15:35 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-08 10:18:48 
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Tom Watson <notme@[EMA  2008-08-08 10:24:04 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"J. Clarke" <  2008-08-08 11:08:48 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-12 11:10:34 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"J. Clarke" <  2008-08-12 18:06:35 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-13 00:09:06 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-06 00:26:45 
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"Swingman" <  2008-08-06 06:28:16 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Tom Veatch   2008-08-06 16:57:16 
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FrozenNorth <frozennor  2008-08-06 22:08:44 
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Tom Veatch   2008-08-06 17:19:52 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"charlie" <c  2008-08-06 15:24:08 
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"Swingman" <  2008-08-06 18:00:52 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Tom Veatch   2008-08-06 18:45:41 
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Tom Veatch   2008-08-06 18:42:09 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
FrozenNorth <frozennor  2008-08-06 23:46:34 
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Tom Veatch   2008-08-06 20:47:23 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-08 10:33:42 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Larry Blanchard <lblan  2008-08-07 08:58:46 
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Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-08 09:54:14 
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"Upscale" <u  2008-08-08 10:39:22 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-12 11:07:43 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Tom Veatch   2008-08-12 16:32:46 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
scott@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-08-12 22:53:43 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-13 00:21:07 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-13 00:06:54 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Maxwell Lol <nospam@[E  2008-08-13 09:58:41 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Tom Veatch   2008-08-13 09:58:43 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-13 11:17:40 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Tom Veatch   2008-08-13 21:07:42 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Morris Dovey <mrdovey@  2008-08-12 17:20:33 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Rod & Betty Jo&  2008-08-09 03:03:54 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"David G. Nagel"  2008-08-09 11:10:50 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Rod & Betty Jo&  2008-08-09 14:12:30 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"J. Clarke" <  2008-08-09 19:37:19 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-12 12:05:28 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-12 11:42:29 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"J. Clarke" <  2008-08-12 12:16:31 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Upscale" <u  2008-08-12 13:02:08 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-13 11:53:38 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Lee Michaels"   2008-08-13 13:44:46 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-12 11:23:42 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Jack Stein <jbstein2@[  2008-08-12 11:18:51 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Robatoy <Counterfitter  2008-08-04 15:55:22 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Swingman" <  2008-08-04 18:27:29 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Lee Michaels"   2008-08-04 20:17:52 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Charlie Self <charlied  2008-08-05 05:19:50 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Robatoy <Counterfitter  2008-08-08 07:39:36 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Robatoy <Counterfitter  2008-08-12 15:53:57 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Robatoy <Counterfitter  2008-08-13 11:25:52 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
"Lee Michaels"   2008-08-13 19:45:02 
Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS
Robatoy <Counterfitter  2008-08-13 16:56:39 

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