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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

You know I'm all for all this techno-babble argumentation back and forth
about the virtues of one OS over another and why one should choose one over
the other - but how about this for a good reason:  

Because Microsoft is EVIL.  NO question about it, no argument, end of story.



- Shea Tisdale
 
Every generation has an obligation to improve the world. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:17 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Microsoft to
> sellpersonalinformationaboutcustomers to advertisers
> 
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:02:07 -0800 (PST), Tom Caswell
> <derpimpkar AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If the second rate software on Windows is causing the problem, it's not
> > Windows causing the problem.  Second rate software will cause problems
> on
> > any system.  My point is you can prevent Windows from becoming the weak
> > link.
> 
> No, you have misunderstood operating system architectures.  Microsoft,
> by putting everything it possibly could into the kernel has made Windows
> much less stable.  So, when a 3rd party application calls one of the
> microsoft functions to do something it calls into the kernel and anything
> wrong there causes system instability.
> 
> Now, contrast that with something like Linux or Apple.  Because libraries
> are located outside of the kernel, when something goes wrong in them
> it only affects the single application that's using it, not the entire
> system.
> 
> So, yes, it *is* windows that is causing the problem exactly because of
> what Microsoft has done by putting everything it could into the kernel.
> Unfortunately, there's absolutely no way of fixing it without completely
> throwing it out and starting over.
> 
> Tanner
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