Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: MS Access Date: 15 Aug 2024 04:24:28 GMT Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <87h6cl74ix.fsf@tilde.institute> <8WUuO.115458$COA2.7128@fx46.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net cW56tv2/Lh95xXF2fTfq3QjxHcakyyczv+K53mOmC74tRH9+7P Cancel-Lock: sha1:q2qBez1BeDUni0jGOgznowagQUA= sha256:xd71xCslOyX+kycoBP19HzjpX6ECe1EWhNvlLlYZDpo= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; f608461; Linux-6.11.0-rc2) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:178262 comp.os.linux.misc:57960 On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:50:58 -0400, "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote in : > On 8/13/24 10:50 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2024-08-14, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >> Oops, lost my response. Let's try again... >> >>> On 2024-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:51:25 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: >>>> >>>>> Note that a lot of companies - mostly as a result of having dumped >>>>> most of their IT people in favor of 'cloud' and 3rd-party management >>>>> - have a "M$ ONLY" policy. >>>> >>>> That would be “a diminishing number of companies”. Those that >>>> deliberately cripple their own competitiveness by restricting their >>>> technological choices are more likely to come a cropper in the >>>> marketplace. Either they go out of business, or they get acquired by >>>> some more successful company. >>>> >>>> Either way, the legacy Microsoft technologies gradually get phased >>>> out of the economic gene pool. >> >> Sounds like it's time for the re-education squad to pay a few visits. >> >> https://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/06/09/0793-an-offer-you-cant-refuse- ww/ > > M$, and it's lawyers & suckers, have entirely different ideas - they > WILL press, hard, for M$ dominance. > > Technical superiority won't COUNT in most situations. M$ is - by > effort/propaganda - THE de-facto standard. Doesn't matter how much it > sucks. > > This is the REALITY. > > In the END M$ will absorb/destroy Linux - so we'd better have a good > REPLACEMENT. Just sayin' Hate to be the one to break it to you, but there is a Linux subsystem in Windows now. Which is reasonable, considering that Linux dominates everywhere else _except_ the (shrinking) desktop market. "Can't we all just get along?" -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.11.0-rc2 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G