(sorry for the top post...but given the subject line (OP), hopefully I won't offend more than one)
...and just when I was beginning to think that Mr. Xah Lee was a changed man and had dropped his compulsion to use profanity to express his thoughts. I didn't actually do a grep on his last several posts, so I may have been mistaken prior to his most recent post. RFC actually stands for "request for comments". ...gee what a nice idea. I did not read past his definition of RFC. Oh well, Sorry for breaking the rule "don't feed the troll". Enough said. Jim On 14 Oct 2005, Xah Lee wrote: > Microsoft Hatred, FAQ > > Xah Lee, 20020518 > > Question: U.S. Judges are not morons, and quite a few others are > not morons. They find MS guilty, so it must be true. > > Answer: so did the German population thought Jews are morons by > heritage, to the point that Jews should be exterminated from earth. > Apparently, the entire German population cannot be morons, they must be > right. > > Judge for yourself, is a principle i abide by. And when you judge, it > is better to put some effort into it. > > How much you invest in this endearvor depends on how important the > issue is to you. If you are like most people, for which the issue of > Microsoft have remote effect on your personal well-being, then you can > go out and buy a case of beer on one hand and pizza on the other, and > rap with your online confabulation buddies about how evil is MS. If you > are an author writing a book on this, then obviously its different > because your reputation and ultimately daily bread depend on what you > put down. If you are a MS competitor such as Apple or Sun, then > obviously you will see to it with as much money as you can cough out > that MS is guilty by all measures and gets put out of business. If you > are a government employee such as a judge, of course it is your > interest to please your boss, with your best accessment of the air. > > When i judge things, i like to imagine things being serious, as if my > wife is a wager, my daughter is at stake, that any small factual error > or mis-judgement or misleading perspective will cause unimaginable > things to happen. Then, my opinions becomes better ones. > > Q: Microsoft's Operating System is used over 90% of PCs. If that's > not monopoly, i don't know what is. > > A: Now suppose there is a very ethical company E, whose products have > the best performance/price ratio, and making all the competitors > looking so majorly stupid and ultimately won over 90% of the market as > decided by consumers. Is E now a monopoly? Apparently, beer drinkers > and pizza eaters needs to study a bit on the word monopoly, from the > perspectives of language to history to law. If they have some extra > time, they can sharpen views from philosophy & logic contexts as well. > > Q: What about all the people in the corporate environments who are > forced to use MS products and aren't allowed the option/choice to use > Mac/Linux/UNIX? > > A: Kick your boss's ass, or, choose to work for a company who have > decisions that you liked. > > Q: What about MS buying out all competitors? > > A: Microsoft offered me $1 grand for saying good things about them. > They didn't put a gunpoint on my head. I CHOOSE to take the bribe. > Likewise, sold companies can and have decided what's best for them. > It's nothing like under gunpoint. > > Q: Microsoft forced computer makers to not install competitor's > applications or OSes. > > A: It is free country. Don't like MS this or that? Fuck MS and talk to > the Solaris or BeOS or AIX or HP-UX or Apple or OS/2 or Amiga or NeXT > or the Linuxes with their free yet fantastically easy-to-use and > network-spamming X-Windows. Bad business prospects? Then grab the > opportunity and become an entrepreneur and market your own beats-all > OS. Too difficult? Let's sue Microsoft! > > Q: Microsoft distributed their Internet Explorer web browser free, > using their âmonopolyâ power to put Netscape out of business. > > A: entirely inane coding monkeys listen: It takes huge investment to > give away a quality software free. Netscape can give away Operating > Systems free to put MS out of business too. Nobody is stopping Sun > Microsystem from giving Java free, or BeOS a browser free, or Apple to > bundle QuickTime deeply with their OS free. > > Not to mention that Netscape is worse than IE in just about every > version till they become the OpenSource mozilla shit and eventually > bought out by AOL and still shit. > > ⢠Netscape struggles, announced open browser source code in 1998-01, > industry shock > http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html > > ⢠Netscape browser code released in 1998-03. Mozilla FAQ. > http://mozilla.org/docs/mozilla-faq.html > > ⢠AOL buys Netscape in 1998-11 for 4.2 billion. > http://news.com.com/2100-1023-218360.html?legacy=cnet > > ⢠Jamie Zawinski, resignation and postmortem, 1999-04 > http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html > > ⢠suck.com, Greg Knauss & Terry Colon, 2000-04, Netscape 6 mockery > http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/04/10/ > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/200004,greg_knauss_netscape.zip > > ⢠Xah Lee, Netscape Crap > http://xahlee.org/Writ_dir/macos-talk/58.txt > > Q: Microsoft implemented extra things to standard protocols in > their OS so that other OS makers cannot be compatible with their OS > while their OS can be compatible with all. They used this Embrace & > Extend to lock out competitors. > > A: My perspective is this: suppose you are now a company who's OS sits > over 90% of computers (regardless how this come to be for the moment). > Now, lots of âstandardâ protocols in the industry is a result of > popularity (RFC = Really Fucking Common), and popularity resulted from > being free, from the RFCs of the fantastically incompetent by the > truely stupid unix tech morons. What can you do if you want to improve > these protocols? If you go with totally different protocols, then the > incompatibility with the rest 10% isn't your best interest. I would > adopt existing protocols, and extend them with improvements. Being a > commercial entity, i'm sorry that it is not my duty to release my > improvments to my competitors. Any of you incompetent IBM/AIX/OS/2 or > SGI/Irix or HP/HP-UX or Sun/Solaris or Apple/AU-X/Mac can do the same, > not that they haven't. > > Of course, the universe of moronic unixers and Apple fanatics cannot > see that. The unix idiots cannot see that their fantastically stupid > protocols are fantastically stupid in the first place. The Apple > fanatics are simply chronically fanatic. > > Q: Microsoft product is notorious for their lack of security. > > A: In my very sound opinion, if Microsoft's OS's security flaws is > measured at one, then the unixes are measured at one myriad. If unixes > suddenly switch popularity with Windows, then the world's computers > will collapse uncontrollably by all sorts of viruses and attacks. This > can be seen for technical person who knows unix history well: > > ⢠http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/freebooks.html (e.g. > ftpd/proftpd, inetd/xinetd, sendmail/qmail, X-Windows, telnet, passwd, > login, rsh, rlogin.) > > ⢠on the criminality of buffer overflow, by Henry Baker, 2001. > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/buffer_overflow.html > > ⢠Fast Food The UNIX Way: > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_fastfood_dir/fastfood.html > > ⢠Jargon File: http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/jargon/ > > ⢠The Rise of Worse is Better, by Richard P. Gabriel, 1991, at > http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html > > and plenty other pre-90s documents to get a sense of just how > fantastically insecure unix was and is. Unix today is not just > technically slacking in the âsecurityâ department, but the unix > ways created far more unmanageable security risks that's another topic > to discuss. > > The unix crime, is not just being utmost technically sloppy. Its entire > system and âphilosophyâ created an entire generation of incompetent > programers and thinking and programing languages, with damage that is a > few magnitude times beyond all computer viruses and attacks damages in > history combined. See also: > > ⢠Responsible Software License: > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/responsible_license.html > > Q: Microsoft products are simply poor quality. > > A: Perhaps this in general is true pre-1997. I think the vast majority > of MS products today have better performance/price ratio then > competitors. This includes their operating system, their input devices > (mouse & keyboard), their X-Box gaming console, their software game > titles, their software architectures and languages (.NET, C#), their > technologies (few i know: SMB), and many of their software applications > (suite of Office, which consistently ranked top since early 90s). > > e.g. Tom's hardware review on x-box, esp in comparison with Sony > Playstation 2. (2002-02): > http://www4.tomshardware.com/consumer/02q1/020204/index.html > > the leading role of MS Office products can be seen in MacUser & > MacWorld magazine reviews through out early 90s. > > Q: BeOS was once to be bundled with PC, but MS meddled with it and > basically at the end fucked Be up. > > A: BeOS is a fantastically fucking useless OS. No DVD player, No Java, > No QuickTime, No games, no Mathematica, no nothing. For all practical > purposes, fucking useless in a different way than every donkey unixes. > Not to mention the evil Apple computer, refused to pass the QuickTime > technology, and tried to prevent BeOS from running on Apple hardware by > refusing to release their PPC hardware spec. Be founder Jean-Louis > Gassee wrote an article about it. Who's fucking whom? > > Q: X inc tried to do W, but MS threatened to depart. > > A: Dear X inc., try to find a bigger dick for your needs. If you cannot > find any, too bad! Suck it up to the big brother and hold on to what > you can get! If you have the smarts, milk him dry! Free country, free > to choose partnership. Ladies, previous night's indiscretion is not > rape the morning after. > > Q: I'm not a beer bucket or pizza hole, but i want to do research > over the web. Is there any free stuff on the web i can grab? I'm an > OpenSource advocate, i demand free things. > > A: ⢠> http://www.moraldefense.com/Campaigns/Microsoft/Antitrust_FAQ/default.htm > (The Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism) > > ⢠http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v21n2/friedman.html (The > Business Community's Suicidal Impulse by Milton Friedman, 1999-03) > local copy > > Q: I'm thinking of putting my wife and daughter on the table. What > do you suggest to begin with? > > A: Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell: > http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/jdini/basic_economics.html > > Q: Are you confident enough to bet your wifes and daughters for > what you say? > > A: No. But I put my reputation in. > ------- > This post is archived at: > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/mshatredfaq.html > > Xah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > â http://xahlee.org/ > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
