Subj : Re: Open Source Leaving Microsoft Sitting on the Fence? To : comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux From : Michael Heiming Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 07:13 am -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message In comp.os.linux.misc Nick Landsberg suggested: > Juhan Leemet wrote: [Even more Snipped - Followup-To comp.os.linux.misc] > Being rather a cynic, I have also harbored a suspicion that with this > business model there is *zero* incentive to make Microsoft > software efficient. When you buy the "new improved" > version of Office and it's dog slow on your PC, the party > line is "buy a faster machine." Since Microshaft is the only Isn't that among the most important "law" of the wintel mafia, to suck even more money out of customers? "Every 18 month, speed of software half's." In addition, virus scanning and alike might need even more CPU performance, to give people a warm and fuzzy feeling, while happily clicking around in a broken, rather undocumented OS until the next worm or alike reboots their machine, which they had expected anyway.;) -- Michael Heiming (GPG-Key ID: 0xEDD27B94) mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBAKyTAkPEju3Se5QRAsWOAKCHvLn2UhDVj2wKydha6Ezn7CNvkQCfQmF6 Cojjg+q8Ev88V6oqPe15HAA= =6l4T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- .