This is a community, after all. I can refrain from calling M$ M$ if it will help the harmony. MS it is.

Civil is good. :-) Thanks.

You also pointed out that those who write should take the best that Windows has to offer, use it, and reject the rest. That's really what open source and extreme programming are all about.

Well, I have two thoughts. First as long as one allows oneself to feel any contempt for the company and it products I dont think that one can consider oneself to be objective about what Windows does well. (I use "one" so as to be clear this is general comment.) You say marketing is one of them, wheras I consider this to be superficial. I would say Office and responsiveness to boring old business oriented requirements, along with UI consistency and VB automation of most applications (security issues aside,) would be their chief strengths. We could debate such things for a long time though.... My second though is about extreme programming. I see no reason why such an approach should be confined to open source. I would be unsuprised to learn that MS had experimented with it, if not adapted it where it made sense to them.

No, I don't think the government should intervene in business as much as it does.

Personally I see no reason why the US governement shouldnt force MS to open source the versions of the OS that were built during the period that they were exploiting their virtual-monopoly. To me it seems like a sensible and equitable response. The playing ground would become level then. MS would still have the opportunity to innovate, but the rest of the world would have a chance to compete. Which ultimately would act as a huge stimulus to the PC market.

Of course if I had a dime for everytime my screen faded to purple I could have easily paid for the legally licensed MS products that I use.

I assume you are on a Windows box from the 9x line. This happens far far less often on NT and W2k, and I have been told that it is similar with XP. ME has a particular reputation (that my limited exposure concurs with) for being an abomnation. If you are programming seriously either go *nix or go NT.

Cheers,

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

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