Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?
From: Brian Inglis (Brian.Inglis_at_SystematicSw.ab.ca)
Date: 11/29/03
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:41:29 GMT
On 29 Nov 2003 13:45:22 GMT in alt.folklore.computers,
stanb45@dial.pipex.com (Stan Barr) wrote:
>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:16:30 +0000 (UTC), Richard Heathfield
><dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>>Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>>> In article <BBED9DEE966813E6D@10.0.1.2>,
>>> slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:
>>>>In article <ui%wb.2059$nm6.16336@news.indigo.ie>,
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>>>Open Source programmers fully expect to earn money by
>>>>doing another job, then come home and do their programming in
>>>>their spare time. And they don't mind !
>>>
>>> Sure, but they don't produce software of equal quality.
>>
>>You can say that again. My LAN currently has four machines connected to it.
>>Two of them run commercial OSs, and two run hobbyist OSs. The hobbyist OSs
>>work fine. The commercial OSs frequently crash.
>>
>>Not all hobbyist software is good quality, of course. But don't make the
>>mistake of thinking that all commercial software is good quality either.
>
>I concur. I've got 6 machines on my LAN - 1 x Windows98, 1 x MacOs 8.6,
>3 x Linux and 1 x Native Oberon. I spend more time and effort keeping
>that one Windows machine running properly than all the others put together.
>
>It's latest trick today: I booted up this morning and my keyboard has reverted
>back to US - again! Perhaps I should upgrade to XP...
Read the ME or XP EULAs and commentaries on them before you upgrade --
all your rights belong to MS.
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Brian.Inglis@CSi.com (Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca)
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