(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:
