[Leica] I Like Your New Cajones!

[RBedw51767@aol.com]

Damn Dan,  it is really a scarry world.  I don't know who has influenced who 
but I have been agreeing with you a lot here lately.  I like your new style 
of calling an ass (not ace) an ass and a spade a spade.  Where would we be 
today in computerization without Bill Gates?   I totally agree with you.  
When I was trying to respond to every LUG post stayed upset.  Don't let the 
jerks and Leica non-users get to you.  

Bob  

<< Back in the 80's when I was using Digital Research's CP/M I had read that
 the reason IBM had chosen Bill Gates to provide the operating system for its
 PC was that Gates had written MS-Basic while in school, and that IBM had
 approached him AND DR about an operating system. The story I heard was that
 the director of DR was playing 'hard to get', or went fishing or something,
 and that Bill Gates beat DR out and the race was on.
 I had used MS-DOS and DR-DOS, and to be honest, MS had always come up with a
 solution that worked better. I have used UNIX and OS/2 on my PCs, but MS-DOS
 and later Windows did more for me and with less sweat and strain than other
 options. I had several word processing programs, from Perfest Writer and
 Wordstar to, now, Word 2000- I have never had to sweat the parameters of
 envelopes or labels- with Mr. Gates software, I put in the label or
 envelope, and the printer makes a beautiful print- no muss, no fuss.
 If he indeed stole the software, I would like to see if the software from
 which he stole or borrowed could do the job better. I doubt it, if it worked
 better, Word 2000 would not be the one I used!
 So, he's rich and arrogant. Big deal. He has, I think I read, more
 millionaires per captia in his organization than any other Fortune 500
 company, and provides jobs and solutions to a myriad of people.
 This big hoopla over him giving away his browser, and hurting Netscape's
 feelings is the biggest bunch of sour grapes I ever heard! If Netscapes is
 so great, let them sell an operating system that is BETTER than Windows, let
 them come up with a browser, BETTER than windows and people will flock to
 them.The nearest analogy that comes to mind is that if Henry Ford were under
 the same type of government restrictions we have now, the buggy whip makers
 would have cried 'foul' and all model Ts would have had a buggy whip
 attached to the dashboard.
 By the same token, to keep it on topic, and since Leica does not have the
 market share of Nikon or Canon- why don't they sue, and have all Nikons and
 Canons sold with a Leica Filter, say, with each unit! Since we all know that
 the Japanese are such thieves and crooks. Jeez, why don't these people get a
 life!
 
 My 2 centimes worth of opinion. The rant is free.
 
 Dan
 
 - Cry havoc, and loose the dogs of war >>