Issue 3. [Re: [ros-general] ROS-User-Issues]

[jwalsh at bigpond.net.au]

---- "Murphy wrote: 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jwalsh at bigpond.net.au [mailto:jwalsh at bigpond.net.au] 
> > Sent: 27 October 2005 03:14
> > To: ReactOS General List
> > Cc: John Vandenberg
> > Subject: Re: Issue 3. [Re: [ros-general] ROS-User-Issues]
> > 
> > 
> > Just give me a good reason why I'm not contributing and I'll 
> > gladly leave ReactOS.
> 
> No one is saying you should leave. It's just that you seem to go off on a
> tangent, and no one understands what's going on.
> I don't mind though, I think it's funny :)
> 
> > I want to embrace all which flows from FreeDOS to ReactOS and beyond.
> > but, not forget 9x in between. 
> 
> 9x is dead. It's not coming back, and I can't think of anyone besides
> yourself who would want it back.
> It's a terrible, terrible operating system which is better left dead and
> buried.
> 
Shane Brooks of http://www.litepc.com/ does not come across as a stupid businessman. He seems to think that 9x users are worth something.
Please do me a favour: just take a look at his 98/95 micro (hybrid) and then tell me again what you think. He has even reduced it to flash card.
No future for 9x? Microsoft is making threats, but it is still supporting 9x.
They are not so brash that they would insult their client base.
What makes you so cocksure of yourself?
His software cost me $45  and I got good service and it works first time, it is so lean that I can make a ghost backup in under 3 minutes.
I have been running a test for three weeks on a separate machine, without any protection, except that provided by a router, I have even rejected the Windows Updates. Admittedly I don't surf, but in principle and under restricted conditions it works. And what is more Shane does not blame his users. 
Nor does he resort to cheap shots.
ReactOS, after three expensive downloads, still does not work.
But I am still not giving up on it, nor you for that matter.
> 
> Here is a good example. 
> You started off talking about not giving in, not sure what that was all
> about 
> The moved onto USB, and swiftly onto FreeDOS, ReactOS and then '98
> Then you just seemed to tag the following on to the end 
> 
> > Before I lost my business in 1987 I sold networked 
> > Multiprocessors using PCMOS/386.
> > I was one of the few in the business at that time.
> 
> And I understood this post better than most :p
I'll disregard this  personal cheap shot.
> 
> Ged.
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