Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Phong, Windows affordable? Linux can be downloaded for free. And a 5GB distro is stil a lot cheaper than windows. Windows seems to be affordable because, of their agressive marketing, it is already installed when you buy a PC. Best regards, Michiel Fokkema Phong wrote: > Don't mean to get into the Mac vs Windows religious war, but > technical merits aside, Windows (and Microsoft) achieves the one > thing that Unix, Mac, and a whole slew of others couldn't. And > that is making it affordable and popular, thereby making it > eminently more useful. > > I attribute the internet revolution with 3 things: the internet > backbone, the web, and the presence of home PCs. > > - Phong > > > Ken Firestone wrote: > >>Actually its windoze, a "fine" micro$oft product, and one of the >>lamest excuses for an os ever marketed. Unfortunately most of the >>suits that buy it are not bright enough to tell the difference between >>good and bad technology. And stupid enought to fall for marketing hype. > > > > -- > 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