[ale] AOL sues Microsoft

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Jan 24 09:35:12 EST 2002


I see no reason to apologize for a harsh responce to what sounds like
"well I like it because it works for me and I don't have to work to use
it".

I have had the experience of using M$ (everything from windows 2.0 to
XP), linux in multiple flavors of distributions, Mac, HP (w/CDE), DOS
(M$ and IBM and DRDOS), OS/2, amiga's, trs80's, and even flipped a few
switches on a PDP11 and a whole mess of vme backplane stuff.

Microsoft OS's are absolute, unquestionable, complete and total,
unadulterated, pure, stinking, flies-buzzing every where, maggot
infested crap. There's not a single thing that works in any of the
versions released that was not stolen or acquired from somewhere else. 

So if someone really WANTS to use M$ garbage because it "works for
them", I have great pity for their quality standards.

The world is full of people who will do anything for a buck. We don't
need people like that. Microsoft is at the top of that list. They have
done nothing to clean up their mess, prevent IT disasters due to their
sloppy products, or benefit human development in any way. 

The "let's make it easy to use to more people can use it" mentality has
led to a dearth of total morons who now use all of M$'s stuff. This
hoard of technical morons keeps getting hit with every virus and worm
that afflicts M$ products. Why?! Because as long as the vulnerabilities
exist, M$ can sell licenses for source code access to Norton and MacAfee
to clean up the problem. It's another revenue stream for M$ and for the
anti-virus crowd. Most of the repair work (what little there is) winds
up in the new version (pick your name, 95, 98, winme, NT, 2000, XP) that
they sell you.

I detest the major contribution to technology from Microsoft. That
bugger in Redmond came up with "the license" concept. First you pay for
the use of something. And in doing so, you give up any right for legal
recourse if the item does not perform as promised. WHAT?! If I pay a
dentist to fix a toothache and he pulls the wrong tooth, he can be held
liable for his mistake. If an engineering company designs a bridge that
collapses, they are held liable for the consequences. If Microsoft
Office crashes and wipes out an hours work, tough luck. If you
continually loose time at work because you have to keep rebooting
because M$'s OS can't keep running due to a fault in their product, you
bite the bullet because there's no recourse for you to demand
reparations for a poor product. You had to agree to not hold M$ liable
for anything in order to install the piece of crap.

Accountability. Integrity. Honesty. These were the virtues that I was
taught were the important parts of adult life. Microsoft has
demonstrated repeatedly that these are of no concern to them. 

I will not use any Microsoft product as long as there is any alternative
that even comes close to meeting the desired functionality. If someone
else wants to sing praises to Microsoft, they have the right to do so.

Just come to me asking for a job later. 

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 08:33, Geoffrey wrote:
> This is going to sound harsh, so be it....
> 

 
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