From:	Sheldon Rose <scrose@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date:	Sat, 2 May 1998 14:38:39 -0500

> > >
> >
> > So in the end you have the deckers running their own OSs on their
> > computers, and the standard users running some mass-marketed crap?

I have to disagree with this statement. Just because an OS is
mass-marketed or not does not denote weather or not it is crap... I'm
fond of win95/NT even if it is system 7 with some dumb stuff added in.
To have a vast selection of user friendly affordible applications is an
advantage in and of itself. I use Linux and my X-windows is higly
customized I like to mess with things now and then.


> > Sounds about right.
> >
> Possibly. But you notice Linux can read HPFS, Vfat, etc etc.
> NT can't read HPFS (in version 4), or ext2, or much else besides FAT and
> NTFS. This goes back to the theory, microsoft doesn't have to destory
> anyone, eventually you will use their product, because its all there is.

This is somewhat valid but then again can you say scanner I though you
could. :)