[Sussex] snigger, snigger!

[Trevor Marshall]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 22:53 +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:

> What you mean he still has an Altair on which to run Altair BASIC?
> 
> ... oh I see, you mean he uses software written by people who work for 
> his company or used to work for companies his company acquired.   ;-)
> 
> On this subject, I received a book for Christmas, it was written by 
> Michael Bywater and is entitled "Lost Worlds - What have we lost, and 
> where did it go?", I thoroughly recommend it.   It is a highly 
> entertaining read, a taxonimy of loss.   I wish to quote a single entry 
> (including footnotes, it's the final footnote that's the killer):
> 
> Microsoft.
> ==========
> 
> Microsoft is, sadly, far from lost*.  But is is, in a precisely 
> defineable way, a loser, and what it loses is other people's lives.

[snip]

> **** - Or rather perhaps you should.  I don't use the stuff.  This book 
> was researched and written without the use of any Microsoft software at 
> all.  Such a pleasure; you can't imagine.

Oh no, I can imagine the pleasure.  It's what makes me fire up a
computer at home after I've spent too much of my day nailing jelly to
the ceiling^W^W^W^W^Wtrying to administer and/or develop on a thicket of
Windows boxes.

Thanks for the quotation Geoff, It brightened up my whole day!
-- 
Trevor Marshall <trevorm at rusham.demon.co.uk>