Re: why

["George Scithers" owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx]

Just a thought on that -- if I get an attempt to steal my
identity that appears to come from ebay or from paypal, I forward
it to spoof@xxxxxxxx, and promptly get a reply saying they are
looking into it and reporting it to the proper authorities. If I
get one that appears to come from Microsoft's facilities and I
report it to abuse@xxxxxxxx, I get a reply saying it's not their
fault, and telling me to report it to whoever the spam really
came from.
The problem is that MicroSquish is superb at selling stuff on the
public, and correspondingly incompetent at everything else --
because they just don't care.

George Scithers
----- Original Message -----
From: "flash" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:17 AM
Subject: why
Harry asked ≪why capitalism doesn't produce sensible software
the way
it produces sensible cars, shoes, etc.≫
I think iti is because customers don't demand better. And when
they
_had_ better, they got rid of it for the next version, which
was worse.
That's how we got stuck with Windows. I once had an Atari 1040F
with a
nifty little OS which booted from a diskette; it ran for 10
years
without once crashing or corrupting a file. I put it out to
pasture when
it ran out of RAM, and I've not seen anything since which runs
as
reliably as that Atari OS did.