[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > Not Bill Gates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:35:47 +0000, Not Bill Gates wrote: > >> > Heck, I dunno. Like you, I don't even really care all that much. > >> You don't care that innovation in desktop software has been crippled by > >> the actions of the monopoly player Microsoft? > > You need to first prove innovation in desktop software has been > > crippled, don't you? > > MS took desktop software through pretty much the same sequence of > offerings that the mainframe and minicomputer software industry had > been throgh: flat file systems and single-tasking OS's in a command > line environment, adding nested file systems, adding TSRs, adding a > windowing environment, adding true multitasking and finally > multiprocessor systems. This took them what - 20+ years?
<shrug> Being pissed off about how things could have been done better is a losing proposition. Even so, I'm a LOT more pissed off that we're still driving around in 25 mpg polluting gas-burners than I am about not having Windows XP available in 1985. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
