On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 12:00, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
In short M$ is widely used not because it's easy but because of a whole history of piracy and illegal practices. And they did not make the pc popular. It was the low cost Taiwanese manufacturer who provided a platform for software like dos, wordstar, wordperfect, lotus123, gemplus, dbase, Turbo pascal, etc. And they existed BEFORE msdos and windows3.0.
They have existed but it is windows that became a household name. Go to the various homes and small offices and ask them what is windows and ask them the list of the above mentioned software. How windows became popular, by begging, borrowing or stealing is besides the point.
Go get a REAL education in computers and software (u really need it). And u curse windows because it converts simple reasonable folks into homicidal maniacs (That is true I almost got whacked many yrs ago when CIH virus wiped out a clients FAT table - his "do number" recievables were on the disk).
I had faced a panic situation when I wiped out a client's partition table in order to simply remove a partition virus. His tally, mail and docs were in it. Luckily I recovered the files and saved my ass and even got paid for it. I am not claiming that windows is the best, I am only saying its the simplest to learn and get familiar with. Give newbies linux to install, configure and use and do the same experiment with windows.
Linux does not have a unity of platform and this is a major setback, that makes its different distros doing different things
-- snip all the baloney--
As i said earlier Go get a REAL education in computers and software u really really need it.
Thats the whole issue Mr. Holmes. I don't need a REAL education in computers and software to learn windows. Its simple to pick up and easy to get around. I never went to any class to learn windows.
Egos and high pedestals will get us nowhere. Programmers are very intelligent and smart and should be worshipped as Gods. Like the one for Amitabh Bachan, we can even build temples dedicated to them. But we should not forget that the most endearing and popular actors are those that became one with the masses, who felt the pulse of the masses and gave the masses what they wanted.
Regards,
Rony.