[69728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W.Gilmore)
Mon Apr 19 12:37:47 2004
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Cc: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:37:05 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Apr 19, 2004, at 4:10 AM, Michael Painter wrote:
> First time user of the "net" in '87 when CompuServe announced it to
> its denizens.
> Thank [deity] for Micro$oft or we'd have to get a real job.
I hear this a lot and it is such BS. Does anyone here HONESTLY believe
the "computer revolution" was caused by MS alone and would never have
happened without them?
Microsoft *might* have made it happen slightly faster than without
them, but a good argument can be made that MS actually set back the
software industry in many ways, from stifling competition & innovation
to the current mess with uneducated users and a homogeneous OS.
The truth is, we will not know if things are better or worse because of
MS. But it is no _no way_ a slam dunk one way or the other.
--
TTFN,
patrick
