RE: Intelligence & Creativity
Sean Draine (seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:41:38 -0700
Jason: "Not that I want a copy of Win98. It's kind a like giving out
Syphalus."
Can't say I've heard of Syphalus - is he one of the lesser known Greek gods?
For some reason, my Office 2000 spell checker thinks you meant "Syphilis".
Hah! Another fine example of Redmond's moronic software at work.
Jason: "Now if you were to give out a free copy of RedHat Linux, now that
would be a prize. No, wait, no it wouldn't . . . Linux is free anyway."
I'll agree that $0 is a fair valuation of Linux. As a desktop operating
system, well, not even RedHat would try to pass it off as that. As a server,
it's 4 times slower than Windows NT/IIS
(http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html), and good god, what
a bunch of whiny, poopy-pants losers the Linux community turned out to be
after getting the benchmark results.
Jason: "Of course if I'd have taken the stock options alone I'd be a
millionair 1.3 times over. My youth was not worth the cash trade if you ask
me."
I'd gladly respend my youth at Microsoft rather than in graduate school
(although the latter did afford some liberties I currently miss). If I had,
I'd be writing to you all from somewhere in Tuscany right now.
-Sean
P.S. Sorry, I tried with all my might to resist the urge to respond, but,
alas, I am weak. No more on this topic from me. In fact, one of the reasons
I'm on this list is to talk about anything other than this topic!