[X4U] Good Reading

Eugene list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Mon Jul 18 11:57:44 PDT 2005


On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:01:49AM CDT, Michael Winter <winter at mac.com> wrote:
: 
: On Jul 17, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Joe Grande wrote:
: 
: >People are now throwing away their PC's rather than ridding them of  
: >viruses and spyware.
: 
: And if they buy a new PC, they'll be in the same boat in a week or two.
: 
: Am I the only one who thinks this is a really stupid thing to do?  
: Wonder if he junks his car when it needs an oil change and buys a new  
: one.
: 
: Even if you are a PC/Windows user, this is wrong on so many levels.  
: Not only does it not solve the problem, it rewards the companies that  
: didn't create a quality product to begin with, by buying more of the  
: same. Not to mention the material waste.

Why will M$ never fix Windoze?  Because there's no money in the cure.
Everyone makes money by treating the symptoms.


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Eugene
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