Re: Universal crap

Richard Thomas wrote: > > At 22:48 18/10/97 -0700, you wrote: > }Well, race related remarks are nice old way of fighting your opponents. > }Nothing new for Informix which lied to investors for a long time in order to > }cover its technical incompetence. > }As for you personally, you like jokes; wasn't it you who suggested that > }Microsoft might buy Informix? Why would most competent people in the > }industry buy shity crap? > } > }Boris > > This reminds me of the last major pain-in-the-ass we had on the Informix > list - can't remember his name but it had a 'III' after (I wonder what the > other two were like!!). His "contributions" eventually dried up - maybe he > got to the stage where no ISP would give him an account, and had to > change his name... to Boris?!!! :-) Not neccessarily. Perhaps this Boris is just one of those innocent souls who never wrote a program (or at least not a program that MUST work, all the time), and so is easy game for Bill's and Larry's preaching. And yet, those souls often consider themselves experts, for some unfathomable reason... Dragi "Bonzi" Raos +--------------------------------------------------------+ | 4-MATE Information Engineering Inc. | +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ | 4-MATE | Tel: +385 (1) 242-116 | | Kosa bb | +385 (1) 242-126 | | 10000 Zagreb | Fax: +385 (1) 242-121 | | Hrvatska (Croatia) | e-mail: bonzi@4mate.hr | | | URL: http://www.4mate.hr | +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ P.S. On the topic of "most competent people in the industry", see http://www.standishgroup.com/ms.html, or just try and use MS products.