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bloodhound23 · Post by **bloodhound23** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:19 pm

I felt like trolling at the moment. I wonder what you'll say...

PS- Don't call me a troll I know what I'm doing.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:27 pm

This Q has been around forEVER.
First, I dislike M$, but not Bill Gates (he give a LOT of his money away).
I dislike Windows.

But hey, whatever. I'm not gonna call you a troll.
But this is a stupid question.
OH-Don't kill people. Especially Bill Gates. The event would take over Super Tuesday and I won't know who got nominated for even longer.
-JL

bloodhound23 · Post by **bloodhound23** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:37 pm

Stupid M$ programmers...

babernat · Post by **babernat** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:06 pm

On average it's OK. XP wasn't too bad, I don't care much for Vista. But I don't use Vista very much.

I'd probably describe myself as an OS Agnostic. I have my likes and don't likes about each one. I use XP at work, but I think I'd rather use BSD or some unix clone.

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:16 pm

I love Microsoft solely for their business practices.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:46 pm

Stupid M$ programmers...

Huh? I'm sorry.....what?
Are you referring to them or are you calling me a M$ programmer? I am not one. I am 15, and dislike M$.

-JL

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:16 pm

I see no problem with Windows, Linux, or Mac for that matter. Think of it this way, they are all successful, and they all have their place.

I think Bill Gates is one of the most amazing programmers in the world. He took something people knew very little about, and made it into a peice of software that enables even the most foolish of people to be able to do things like surf the web and create word documents. He is also someone who gives away more money than you will probably ever see... times 10000.

Linus Torvalds created a set of software that enabled programmers to pick it apart and re-build it with better features and with mass testing.

Steve Jobs... stole NexTStep and coined the 'i'.

they all have their place. =)

btw, I like (and use) both Windows and Ubuntu.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:03 pm

01000101 wrote:I think Bill Gates is one of the most amazing programmers in the world.

What has he "programmed" lately? A BASIC interpreter? I doubt he actually wrote a single line of Windows himself.

01000101 wrote:Linus Torvalds created a set of software that enabled programmers to pick it apart and re-build it with better features and with mass testing.

Really? He just wrote a kernel... The Linux "OS" is just a collection of GNU software.

He's surely a figure head of some sort.. but the percentage of kernel code that's his is probably quite low.

01000101 wrote:Steve Jobs... stole NexTStep and coined the 'i'.

How could he steal his own product? You're aware he left Apple and founded "NeXT".. right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

A computer company formed in the 80's that developed a Unix workstation based on Mach/BSD? I think his work at NeXT heavily inspired todays Mac OSX.

bloodhound23 wrote:I felt like trolling at the moment. I wonder what you'll say...

PS- Don't call me a troll I know what I'm doing.

I am going to call you a troll.. because that's exactly what you are.. Your posts are waisting our bandwidth.

On behave of everyone here, I demand you reimburse us for our loss..

$50/per byte should suffice..

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:29 am

Actually, Windows is not half bad. It's a powerful, if bloated and needlessly cryptic, operating system.

It's Microsoft I hate, because of their business tactics and overall attitude.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:31 am

Brynet-Inc wrote:He just wrote a kernel... The Linux "OS" is just a collection of GNU software.

s/GNU/other people's/

Last time I looked, KDE, firefox, MySQL, Apache, OpenOffice, xorg-x11, and many many other components of what people perceive as "Linux OS" were not "GNU", no matter how much RMS likes to give the impression.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:41 am

Solar wrote:
Brynet-Inc wrote:He just wrote a kernel... The Linux "OS" is just a collection of GNU software.
s/GNU/other people's/

Last time I looked, KDE, firefox, MySQL, Apache, OpenOffice, xorg-x11, and many many other components of what people perceive as "Linux OS" were not "GNU", no matter how much RMS likes to give the impression.

I was referring to the base system... but then again, modern Linux distributions ship with a lot of that stuff now as well.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:49 am

"Modern"?

You mean as opposed to "pure" GNU Linuxes, which can't even serve a webpage or show a GUI?

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:47 am

i cant answer the question.
3.11: was ok
95, 98: sucked totaly
98SE: was a bit better
ME: sucked
2k: was ok i think, but i didnt like it very much
XP: I like it
Server 2003: I lke it
Vista: I totaly anf utterly hate it and it sucks worse than 95, ME and Barbra Streisand combined! If i could go back it time and kill those responsible for vista, i would.

THE BIGGEST BLUNDER OF ALL TIME!!!

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:08 pm

How can you hate microsoft's business tactics?
The only OS developers tactics in which i hate, are Apples with their completely negative and finger-pointing ads/commercials. If you havent noticed, their ads are "we're better than microsoft" while microsofts ads are "we make life easier".

bloodhound23 · Post by **bloodhound23** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:15 pm

Not necessarily their ads. As Alboin linked to it's things like that that make me angry.

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