[plug] Are we at 'war' with Microsoft?

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:10, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > | Not always. I hate all operating systems and most software companies... 
> > | though to different extents.
> > 
> > Heh.  Reminiscent of "All mail clients suck, this one just sucks less." :-)
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> > | Mozilla is a great example of a perpetually not-quite-done project.
> > 
> > Mozilla has come a long way in the last few years and it is undoubtedly
> > one of the best web browsers around - IMHO miles better than Microsoft's
> > IE in most areas. 
> 
> True. I should've been clearer - I was referring more to the mail 
> component of Mozilla than the browser. Maybe thunderbird will be better, 
> but I have never managed to get it to run - it's always segfaulted on me 
> no matter what I do, on both my home and work systems. A build from 
> source hasn't helped.
> 
> > It's speed (or lack thereof) is pretty atrocious,
> > though
> 
> It is? Hadn't noticed - seriously. The only speed issues I have with 
> Mozilla are related to unaccelerated RENDER on XFree86, and that's every 
> text-heavy app not just Mozilla.
> 
> > but I don't think anyone has any plans on improving it since CPU
> > speeds and memory capacities just keep growing.
> 
> Nobody with the skills can be bothered, I expect.
> 


Well OpenOffice has improved dramatically. I had to to install Win98 on
a PI/200 with 96mb RAM. Although I did tweak the swap file usage so that
it used its RAM instead of writing to it all the time, OO.o 1.1 was
running awesome. Certainly a lot better than in the days of version 1.0.
  
The customer was so impressed he stopped bugging me to get him a pirate
copy of Office. I really hate it when they do that.

regards,

Chris 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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