On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 09:09:28 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:47:56 -0400 (EDT), Richard Bown wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as > >> in the term "MS-DOS". You can probably guess why the $ is > >> sometimes substituted for the S. > > > > does that mean its a shaky distro ? > > Good one! :-) > > The substitution of the $ for the S is commentary on their > money-grubbing ways. But I think it is fair to say that most people > on this list would consider Windows a "shaky distro". That's > probably one of the reasons they use Linux. > Not really, nowadays. I walk both the Dark and Light Paths, and since XP arrived I haven't seen a BSOD, though I know people who have. Today, if Windows crashes, there is as little doubt that it's because of dodgy hardware or applications as with at least Testing. As far as I can see, most Windows problems arise because of MS's commercial nature rather than poor programming. I help out in an MS forum, where at least half the problems are due to licensing and market segmentation, and not technical issues. But you can't really blame a commercial organisation for taking advantage of markets, especially if it somehow seems to have a lot more market share than perhaps any other company would be allowed by various monopoly laws. I can't imagine what benefit there is to the US government, or any other, from permitting a company that high a market share in such a sensitive market... not that I'd ever expose a Windows machine directly to the Internet. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111002144141.5d618...@jretrading.com
