[plug] M$ wants you to pay & Mac to go OSS

[Bret Busby]

I read the article about Windows 98 second edition (!!) on the cnet.com news
site, yesterday.
I bought Win98, when it was released last year, as it was supposed to be the
bug fix for Win 95, after it took 90 hours on one occasion, last year, to
strip and rebuild a Win95 system, with a 1GB HDD.
Win98 is suicidal.
After having lost about 200MB of data, and not since having been able to
reuse a HDD, after Win98 destroyed its registry, in a scorpion suicide
action, I suggest that MS can take their Windows 98 Second Edition, and
place it where it will hurt most, sideways, and spinning at full speed.
It took me about two weeks, without a computer on this latest occasion, to
recover what I could, then to reinstall what I could.
It has been my experience of Windows 9x, that a complete system rebuild is
required, every three months, or, on occasion, more frequently. And, the
Favorites files are an evil nightmare. To move, or delete them, is about as
easy as writing a single character to every byte on a hard drive, using
edlin!
If and when Microsoft are able to produce stable software, and guarantee its
stability, then, perhaps, and not before, Windows might be worth using. They
still haven't learnt that the Total Cost of Ownership of Win9x is increasing
at an exponential rate, and is probably responsible for Australia becoming a
third world country. And, they are arrogant enough, to continue to expect
their victims to pay for bug fixes!
I am now using Windows 98, significantly reduced, until I can get the Linux
components of our systems sorted out. Hopefully, that won't take too long.

Bret Busby
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
Of Garry Moir
Sent: 19 March 1999 09:57
To: 'plug at linux.org.au'
Subject: [plug] M$ wants you to pay & Mac to go OSS


Not a Linux issue, but of interest.

M$ has plans for selling its service pack for Win98.

Mac anounces its interest in going Open Source with its X server.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3190.html

Garry Moir
Systems Administrator