Re: XyWrite and Windows 7

[Russell Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:50:47PM +0000, Bill Troop wrote:
> programs workable stands in sterling contrast to Apple's efforts to make
> all 3-year-old programs unusable - - not to mention all 3-year-old
> hardware. What a bunch of cheapskates! We all know that Gates gives away
> billions - - but how many know that Steve Jobs has given away all of a
> few thousand? Archive.org has the scoop with 'The Complete Book of Steve
> Jobs['s] Philanthropy.'
>

I am writing this reply to you, from a circa-2000 Powerbook pismo, using the keyboard from the
venerable Apple IIfx. (Considered a nice feeling keyboard. I concur.) I'm using Tiger right now. I
guess it depends on what you mean by trying to make all 3-year old hard /software unusable.
(Keep in mind, for a lot of Mac users, if their system works they are not likely to change it. Some
do, but not in the same percentages as windows user do, i believe.)

As for philanthropy, even though Henry Ford is supposed to have been Gates model, a lot of people
think he's more similar to John D. Rockefeller with his monopoly and later years philonthrophy.
Either "the ends justifies the means" or it eases their conscience, take your pick.

I try to limit my participation in the PC vs Mac, my appendage is bigger than yours contest. I think
we can all agree that had it not been for Gary Kildall and CP/M, QDos would have had nothing to
steal and PC/MS-DOS would be quite different. Without Xerox Parc, Apple and Windows, Next OS, and OS
X may not exist.

> I liked Vista and I have a reasonably powerful laptop. But Windows 7 is
> quite noticeably snappier. Now if only I could dual boot with a nice
> version of OS X, say Tiger, on this Dell! Apparently it can be done but I
> have been daunted by the research.

Even though you slam Jobs, Apple et all, you use OS X? You're free to do what you wish, but you DO
realize that running OS X on anything but Apple hardware is a license violation, not unlike giving
someone a copy of XY or spreading the source for Xy around?

fwiw,


Russ

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