Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave WTF does everyone have to be a "missionary" for his particular brand of operating system or software? Jeff is right, grow up and let everyone go to the church of his choice. Jerry "David M. Dorn" wrote: > > Jeff S wrote: > > This "Mac vs Windows" debate is a very dead horse; it > > passed away sometime in 1996 or so. Please stop > > beating it ;-) > > Don't agree Jefff, > > I run both Mac G4's and Dell PC's with XP and for graphics, and for > both stability and graphics the Mac is the winner. > > Windows owes it dominance to IBM's stupidity in thinking hardware was > the key not software and to Gates's ruthlessness and willingness to > break trade laws. He may not be so lucky in Europe :-) > > Yes, my PC's are used but only for certain astronomical software for > which there is no equivilent for the Mac (yet!). But in the PC world > show me a free raster image printer like QuadTone RIP. > > The point is that in a world free from MS's antiturst abuse there > should have been and be room for all even Atari. > > Finally, either Microsoft can't or won't lockdown Window's from a > security standpoint. My image files are never stored on the PC but > trasferred to the Mac. (and soon to a Mac Server). Somehow I sleep > better at nights. > > Just remember, OS X and Linux are kissing cousins and Open Softeware is > here....Cox Cable is maintaining a 600,000 customer database using > MySQL which is freeware and not 1/2million Oracle package. > > David > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html