h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I haven't run a windows product in over a year now(this time, last time was 94-95) Billy has his place in the world, no question. However most users don't know there is an alternitve(other than Mac) and most users think it's normal to have to reboot several times a week(if not everyday). Also, his unfair bussiness practices, driving better companies out, and taking their products and puting MS on them. Making their OS the only one you're able to run new products on( see above). That is why Billy must be stopped.

I believe Apple is 10 times worse, at least MS do not say i have to buy a computer from them to run their OS

I think most of the hatred for gates is not because he is greedy, expansionist and uses unfair buissness practices, but because he is so successful, Redhat is beginning to get the same kind of hatred now that it has gone mass market

Hey, remember - my argument with him predates Windows!

fair enough

*suddenly remembers being 8 years old again and trying draw a picture of a house with bbc BASIC*

True Apple makes you buy there computer as well, but it's better built than most 'ibm' clones, the os is stronger and faster, the cpu runs faster at lower temperatures. So it's a trade off, more money for a better machine/OS or less money for a so-so-machine/badOS.

I think alot of the hatred towards Bill stems from the fact that he stole D.O.S, (company's name slips the mind) couldn't figure key parts of it so he left them out, turning a good O.S to a so-so O.S. He stole the G.U.I from Apple. He bought so many shares in Intel and AMD that he almost owns them, so MS can write a badly coded O.S and it'll run on the "latest chip". Same goes for alot of hardware.

RedHat's problem is they are starting to write bloatware, which is unfortunate. True alot of hardcord Linux user's are going to say "it's becoming the new MS" and slag it. Code/kernel hackers fall into this group, but people that beleive that Linux is superior to MS, I don't think you'll hear slags.

IMHO

If I had a budget of £500 to buy either a Mac, or a PC running BE, which do you think which do you think would be "stronger and faster"?

I understand the DOS grievances but imitation/theft has always existed im the pc industry, have you seen what happens when you press the windows key in Gnome/KDE?

Redhat may be writing bloatware, but its linux bloatware, which means its largely modular .

Apple OS 7.x and 8.x are certainly somewhat more stable than Windows, on the whole, but they are still prone to crashing, and the memory management system is archaic. I can't comment on OS-X, as I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.

Don't forget, SUSE Linux 6.3 is available for the Power Mac...

and OS-X uses a *nix base

Can I join the elte ranks of this society. Not that I have any particular hate of bill gates but the illogical, user friendly, windows is beggining to annoy me to such and extent that I rearly wish it would all go away. Though not as bad as AOL that just WON'T GO AWAY!!!. And the ad on T.V is particullay tedious.

I thought it was quite clever, they way they called the woman conning you into installing it "Connie"...

How interesting...

Yes, certainly you can join. Any preferred title?
And I'll put your name on the page next time I get a chance, as I'm sorta short on time right now. As long as we don't get any more "power faliures" here, then I'll be able to tomorrow.

Freakin pissed off: Evil One, part time Megalomaniac and fanatical condemner of Alabaster and Pop music. Will do. Sorry I could not reply quicker