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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Why Windows NT will fail -----
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.211713.23323@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec11.150930.1366@wam.umd.edu> <94880@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:17:13 GMT
- Lines: 55
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- In article <94880@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer) writes:
- >: Make that "1/2 windows 1/2 OS/2 halfbreed version *2*.5".
-
- >Thank you, Yamanari. So that's why you are here informing us and correcting
- >the misinformation being spread about OS/2! WE CAN'T BE TRUSTED TO FIGURE
- >THINGS OUT FOR OURSELVES! LIGHTBULB! Damnit's nice to know that that the an
-
-
- <Sigh>
-
- Listen up you big boofer. You just *confirmed* my point.
- Advocacy groups are inherently looking to find the slightest
- error--even if it is obviously a typo (see the thread--
- *thread*--that started because some bozo misread a sentence
- "MS Windows (Apps)" vs. "MS (Windows apps)"..)
-
- If is for this reason *especially* that I posted the correction.
-
- I barely hesitate to suggest that you had, in fact, written a
- message that went along the lines of "THERE IS NO 3.5 YOU NT PUSHER!!"
- and had to cancel it (sour grapes?) when you read the correction.
-
- >NT peddler, of obvious superior intellect, is benevolently trying to keep us
-
-
- ^nonsense. ^obviously.
-
-
- >foolish OS/2 users from hurting ourselves. Well,I guess that's the missionary
- >calling - spread Bill's vision!
-
- OS/2 users are no brighter than any other crowd. If OS/2 users
- make purchases that are to the detriment of OS/2 (i.e. accepting
- and purchasing out of date (WP, Corel), poorly written (Corel,
- all MS OS/2 apps, anything that uses Mirrors) and overpriced
- (I don't even want to talk about some of the prices that OS/2
- had back in the 1.x days) merely encourages companies to let
- their product atrophy (WP) or cease development (Corel).)
-
- As an Os/2 user, it is blatantly obvious to me that the ONLY
- way OS/2 will succeed is if 1)OS/2 users *buy* OS/2 apps
- and 2) request OS/2 versions (which I do bi-monthly, calling
- every Windows app company that I use, calling all of the
- hardware manufacturers I own peripherals from--along with
- faxes when I think they're not listening)--but they MUST
- balance this against giving companies (like WP) the idea that
- they can market shit (WP5.0) and sell it at full price to the
- moronic OS/2 users who are buying it for brand loyalty.
-
-
- --
- Snout: O Bottom, thou art chang'd! What do I see on thee?
- Bottom: What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you?
- ---"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they----
- ----aren't even superficial" --Nietzsche ---------------------
-