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

[Navarre]

My $0.02 worth,

I have a system running Win95/ OSR1, the 'a' version and I have avoided
all temptations to reload, change or mess with the reasonably stable OS.
I do have a problem with word 97 dropping its bundle, especially when I
use the format painter, but I live with it in preference to messing up
the whole apple cart.

BTW

Is there any convention in putting the reply in the top or the bottom of
an email. I currently use Netscape mail as part of version 3 gold. My
preference is to place the reply at the top as I have done here.
Comments please.


- Regards Navarre -
<navarre at omen.com.au>
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Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> 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
> ________________________
> 
> -----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

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