Re: FWIW - OT MESSAGE HEADERS

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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