From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Darwin...was, Re: Better than politics!
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:40:47 -0400

>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Darwin...was, Re: Better than politics!
>Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:48:42 -0400
>
> > kfl at KeithLynch.net 6/9/2005 9:43:21 PM >>>
>
>snippage
>
> >I like Charlie Stross's theory that Windows is a plot to save mankind
> >from emergent AI by retarding progress and by causing the best
> >minds
> >to be repelled by computers and work in some other field.  It makes
> >more sense than any other theory for how anything so awful ever
> >caught on.
>
>Darwin.
>
>Microsoft was far better at marketing themselves than any competitor.
>
>My immediate thought is that Microsoft was very very clever in having
>their software bundled with IBM machines, and with the open architecture
>of the IBM-PC, DOS, then Windows. became the default "standard", mainly
>with those folks who wanted to, so to speak, putthe key in the ignition
>and drive away. (None of this manual transmission stuff...)
>
>My 2 cents worth.
>
>mjw
>
It is worse than that. When IBM decided to develop the desktop style
machines, the got really, really lazy and had some fast talkers develop the
operating system. It's name - DOS, as in MS DOS. We have IBM to blame for
Microsoft.

Bob MacIntosh