That's the thing, I never said it was better, in fact I've said that in some ways Linux is far superior. I was just giving reasons why sighted people stick with Windows rather than switching, and making that flub made it worse. I do have a tendency to misspeak (or mistype in this case) when I'm writing faster than I should. I meant no offense to those of you that hate windows to death. At 11:21 AM 9/15/02 -0400, you wrote: > >Jason Symes writes: >> >> ... I certainly don't think windows is >> the best thing that's happened to my life, so lets just let this whole >> thread of misunderstanding alone, >I'll ignore the bit about misunderstanding and just say that I think most of us would prefer to talk about Linux, and >not Windows. But, my several years experience on this list tells me we won't let inaccurate, uninformed, or other forms >of "Windows is better than Linux" statements go without a response. That isn't going to happen here. > >So, anyone who shows up here and tells us that Windows will survive as the choice of most users because it of >"simplicity and inertia" is going to get a response. Notice I quoted your original post. Those are your exact words. > >> Besides, I'm curious >> about the linux tcp/ip stack and how I've heard its superior to that in >> windows, >My understanding is that everybody uses the same BSD tcp/ip stack technology, everybody. I may be wrong, but I don't >think so. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Jason Symes kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat can cause kids The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke) if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything. If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all! Just trying to plug away!
