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[Tarik Bilgin]

kalirhe at umdnj.edu wrote:

>One day, he was told that Gen U.S. Grant drinks a lot of whiskey and is
>often seen drunk.
>
>"Find out what's his brand of whiskey is, and send a crate each to all the
>other Generals", was Abe's reply.
>
>Best,
>
>Henry 
>  
>

So yes, if what you care about most in the world is the M$ share price, 
yes M$ are the most wonderful company in the world and are "doing a 
great job". Microsoft are not just using unethical/strange/misunderstood 
practices to produce a product that is otherwise excellent (which I take 
as  the point of your anecdote about Abraham Lincoln); they are 
producing a low quality poor excuse for an OS.

McDonalds corporation are also selling a lot of hamburgers. Do they make 
a great hamburger? No.

Personally I am a consumer, a user, not an investor in M$ or Intel's 
fortunes. I choose the best product out there that i see. Personally I 
will take Mac OS X over Windows XP any day. If Apple move to Intel, I 
will continue to buy Apple, but if Apple announced tomorrow they were 
moving to a new version of the OS that is based on Windows XP, I would 
stop buying Apple (and move to a BSD Linux). For me it really is that 
simple. The work I do with computers is too high level and rarely 
limited by the hardware that I am worried about any hardware 
architecture choices Apple make, though I accept that this is somewhat 
due to my lack of knowledge in the field of computer hardware design.

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Tarik