[juneau-lug] Re: Microsoft... What you are buying...

  • From: Tony Taylor <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:24:08 -0800

James Zuelow wrote:

>Anyway.  Use Microsoft when you need to, or even when Linux is just
>awkward for you.  As long as you are happy and your customers are
>happy, that's all that counts.
>  
>

This, to me, is the most important aspect of computing: that you have 
fun.  Me, I can't stand what Microsoft represents-- I believe they have 
set the computing world back 12 years.  My evidence?  Look at the NeXT 
from 1989, and compare it to any operating system put out by Microsoft 
(or anyone else, for that matter).  MS is *still* behind in UI; it's 
only in stability that they have finally caught up to what the NeXT gave 
us years ago.  And, I believe they are threatening our future, both as 
computer professionals and as citizens who use computers.

But.

If you have fun playing with MS software; if you enjoy what you do both 
in work and in play, and you use MS-Windows; if you look forward to the 
things you do; then you are winning.

And this is what matters.

When I started with computers, the Apple ][+ was the big thing for me.  
IBM hadn't even conceived of the PC, and the world consisted of 
Applesoft BASIC and the Sweet 16 mini-assembler (built into ROM!).  I 
enjoyed what I did, and loved the thrill of discovery, of control.  And 
I never lost that.  When computers threatened to become boring in 1993, 
I discovered both the Web and Linux, almost simultaneously (the internet 
was old hat by then).  I loved it.  I found new experiences, and to me, 
that was The Most Important Thing.

As long as computing makes you feel like that, no matter the platform 
you use, you are *way* ahead of anyone else.  Whether I like your choice 
of platforms (MS-Windows SUX!!!, d00d!) or not, the important thing is 
simply this: enjoy everything you do.  Ignore me, or anyone else who 
claims to have The One True Way, because we are wrong (for you).

          - Tony


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