OFF: Virus alert (genuine)

[JOHN M GRAY]

That would be NT,95, Unix, Linux and oh MACs if you want to count them.
Sorry I don't have time to rant in detail like you do, I have more important
stuff to do.

My email got exactly the response I expected from MS haters.  Reminds me of
how MAC users whine at how MS is the dominating OS now.  I'm sure the
"better" systems you use will soon take over.  Funny, many computer people I
know think Unix, Linux and MAC's are steaming piles.  I'll let them know
that based on your expert authority and bigger dick that they are wrong.  I
admit MS isn't the best at every thing, just that they pretty good products
and stand by my assertion that they don't suck as much as you say, if they
did, they wouldn't be where they are now.   They didn't invent many of the
products they push, only made them better, but Ford didn't invent the
automobile either and they make a pretty good car.   The blanket statement
that you make that everything MS puts out sucks shows how closed mind and
biased you are.  I
 bow to your bigger dick, better OS, (what was the name of your great system
again?)and humbly await the time when it takes over the computing world.
I'll probably have a long wait.
John

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Virus alert (genuine)


> On Fri, 5 May 2000, JOHN M GRAY wrote:
>
> => That's real funny, as a network administrator, I use all three systems,
and
> => MS is the one that's best for use of use and doesn't crash with bugs.
All
> => are open to security problems.  Comments like yours makes me wonder
what
> => experience you base it on.  I am a administrator on a 1200 computer
network
> => running 4 different OS's, I think I have some experience on how much MS
> => "sucks".
>
> You know, all that gubbins up there would be a lot more impressive if it
> weren't so vague.  But, I guess somebody who uses "all three systems"
> (which three??) on a "1200 computer network running 4 different OS's"
> (which four, and are any of them Micro$oft OS's?) must know everything,
> and everybody else's experience must count for little.
>
> But wait a minute!  I just realised, *I* am an administrator on a
> multi-thousand computer network running at least 12 different OS's, so
> maybe *my* experience might not entirely be discounted?
>
> => I think there is a lot of sour grapes and people who run other
> => OS's on a few boxes and base all their "experience on how well it works
on
> => their "big" network.
>
> (Yes, we get the point already: your dick is bigger than ours.)
>
> Actually, I think individual user experience is a better yardstick
> than how smoothly a big network of machines runs, because of the fewer
> points of control.  (You will have less variance on the big network,
> especially with fascist admin.)
>
> But, hey, maybe you're on to something, and it's only when you amass
> Windoze boxes into huge M$-Borg like assemblies that they finally become
> reliable.  Prepare to be assimilated!  ("Nobody has complained... yet.")
>
> => If MS sucks so bad then why isn't everyone rushing to
> => buy something else?  Oh yeah, the MS police force you to use MS, I
forgot!
>
> Well, the M$-Police would have to become M$-Miracle Workers to be able
> to "force me to use MS"---unless, that is, they decided to port Windoze
> to the MIPS R3000 CPU.  (Do you think you could put in a good word for
> me?)
>
> In the meanwhile, I'll be sure to remind my friends and colleagues that
> I have it on expert authority that Micro$oft is actually not the
> steaming pile they believe it to be, and that the next time it crashes,
> that crash is simply a figment of their imagination.
>
> "I got my mind right, boss."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
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