Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark I get it, but I really don't want it. Every time I try a MAC, I reach for the right click, and it isn't there! I understand that MAC's are the computer of choice for the video, photo, and other visual art's world. But since I am not in that world. I would be lost. Jerry Jerry Mark Rabiner wrote: > Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > > > > In a message dated 9/28/03 3:45:30 PM, mlquinn.mail@earthlink.net writes: > > > > << Gates definitely made significant contributions during the formative years > > of the computer industry. But I'll stick to my belief that the success of > > his company is due much more to monopolistic and exclusionary tactics than > > to programming excellence. >> > > > > Gates contribution to the computer industry was standardization, which made > > using a computer more uniform. > > DOS and, later, Windows made it possible for most people to switch jobs and > > still have usable skills. It was what the Qwerty keyboard did for office > > workers at the turn of century and even how. However we dislike Gates, he > > established the protocols most of the industry still uses. Software and hardware outfits > > could supply a uniform market and earn the margin to stay in business which > > MS's monopoly made possible. > > > > br > > -- > > I dislike this obliviousness to the Mac world what are you BR an > accountant?. > I don't do windows. I can get other Jobs. (getit?:) > > Mark Rabiner > got it > > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > good > -- > 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