s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Paul Morgan: > > You must also be referring to the almost constant stream of > > infantile anti"M$" remarks with which I am heartily sick and tired. > > I use several OSes, > This is an attitude of which _I_ am sick and tired. Microsoft > software sucks, bigtime! Anyone looking at the amount of crap > flooding the net nowadays can tell that with their eyes, ears, and > nose nailed shut. > > No, there is NO excuse that justifies using that crap, and I don't > care who you are or why you want to. It's crap! Get over it. how about being in an industry which has specialist software which only runs on a M$ base... and breaking compatibility with your peers by using an alternative, inferior package would simply leave your career in dust. you don't sound like you have thought your argument out very well. we are all decided that we _prefer_ GNU/Linux, but even for those who are aware of operating systems other than windows, they are not always in a position to be able to use them. sure i could advise my architecture and engineering friends to use GNU/Linux.. they may have the standard office tools under their new operating system... but please tell me how they are to continue designing engines and buildings; under xfig? i am in a lucky situation, as the major mathematics tools have been ported to all flavours of UNIX (although they could do with an update to their terrible GUIs) and most hi-end academic physics software (Root/AliRoot anyone?) is open source. i cant believe i just replied to an anti-microsoft troll on debian-user :-/ cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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