[NTLUG:Discuss] Fear and Loathing in Redmond...

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Hmmm...

This is the sidelight on the story of the borg that I find most
interesting.  Everybody, more or less, uses Microsoft because 'you have
to'.  I use Pine for mail, and my Windows-centric friends think I'm crazy
to suffer such a plain-looking interface.  But Electric Eyes will pop up
and display a graphic, Netscape will show a link, Acrobat Reader will
display a PDF, and I can add anything else I want.  When mail arrives on
my main office machine, fetchmail gets it within five minutes, and within
a minute my mail applet show Tux the Penguin flipping handsprings to show
new mail is in and my sound card plays the door-chime sound from The
Jetsons.  What am I missing?  The raw flexibility of mh?  Maybe I should
use Mutt for better features?  There isn't anything I'm aware of in
Outlook I have to have.

The only thing I really miss is compatibility with all the latest email
viruses.  Sigh.

Anyway, the question I've been asking since Windows 3.0 is when is the
corporate world going to wake up and seek real computing support?  Why
do Fortune 500 execs recommend toy software that will crash regularly?

Seems to me the thing that could save us from Redmond could be Mac OSX
with its Unix internals, but Apple does such a great job of shooting
itself in the foot.

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, micky john wrote:

> That sucks, do you think that is really going to be a problem?  As you can
> see, I use hotmail because it's conveniant and messenger tells me when i
> have mail.  is there a comparable service in windows that isn't microsoft,
> or am I stuck because it's the only one available that offers such a
> service?
> -Micky
>
> >From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at localhost.brownes.org>
> >Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
> >To: discuss at ntlug.org
> >Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fear and Loathing in Redmond...
> >Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 00:18:14 -0500
> >
> >The following just came across the LPI mailing list; apparently Microsoft
> >is claiming that anything that is transmitted through one of their
> >services will be treated as being "Copyright Microsoft."
> >
> >- If you send a business plan via Hotmail?  Microsoft owns it.
> >
> >- If you send love notes to a significant other?  Microsoft has the right
> >   to republish, publicly display, transfer, or sell such communication.
> >
> >Gotta love it...
> >------- Forwarded Message
> >Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 00:15:54 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Chuck Mead <csm at MoonGroup.com>
> >To: LPI Discuss <lpi-discuss at lpi.org>
> >Subject: [OT] Microsoft should be feared and despised!
> >Message-ID:
> ><Pine.LNX.4.33.0104030010500.31399-100000 at gateway.moongroup.org>
> >
> >Warning... if you subscribe to this list using an email account which
> >originates on a Microsoft service of any kind I will be asking the LPI
> >board to consider blocking all electronic correspondence which
> >originates from or is destined for any Microsoft provided service. THIS
> >IS NOT SOME KIND OF APRIL FOOLS JOKE! It's serious so please take it
> >seriously. This means, at least, hotmail, msn, and microsoft.com. What
> >am I missing? If you don't understand what I'm talking about please take
> >a few minutes and go read the article at the link.
> >
> >http://www.moongroup.com/stories.php?story=01/04/02/0156291
> >- --
> >Chuck Mead, csm -AT- moongroup.com, Owner, MoonGroup.com
> >(Note: html formatted email sent to me is filtered & deleted unread)
> >GnuPG Public Key Available: http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net
> >------- End of Forwarded Message
> >--
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