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Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery
Date 2026-07-01 17:17 +0000
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 04:23:59 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> On 7/1/26 00:54, rbowman wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 01:48:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:03:42 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found a collection of Unix-style utilities (ls, grep, cut, uniq,
>>>> etc.) years ago. The .EXEs' date stamps range from 1999 to 2003.
>>>> They're enough for me to sort of pretend I'm using real tools, rather
>>>> than CMD.EXE's brain-damaged not-quite-equivalents.
>>>
>>> Thinking about it, instead of trying to graft Linux-style
>>> functionality onto the Windows command line, why don’t they just have
>>> a desktop menu option that says “Open Linux Terminal”. This will
>>> directly open window offering a native Linux command line, where you
>>> can have full access to the Linux environment without having to go
>>> through any cumbersome kind of Windows-based intermediary at all.
>> 
>> You mean the pulldown in Windows Terminal that says fedora and when you
>> select it you're in Fedora? Have you ever used Windows or do you just
>> bitch about it?
> 
>    Well, I wouldn't encourage anyone, EVER, to use Winders  :-)

That's fine if you're not a working programmer.

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Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-06-30 14:13 +0000
  Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-06-30 15:26 +0000
    Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-06-30 18:51 +0000
      Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2026-07-01 14:41 -0500
    Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-30 21:52 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-30 23:16 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-07-01 00:03 +0000
          Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-01 01:48 +0000
            Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-01 04:54 +0000
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-01 04:23 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-01 17:17 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-01 20:22 +0100
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-01 12:00 +0200
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 07:53 -0700
            Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-01 08:40 +0100
              Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery (WSL) "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 23:39 +0800
          Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery InterLinked <usenet@phreaknet.org> - 2026-07-07 19:20 -0400
            Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-07-07 23:53 +0000
    Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-30 23:07 +0000
      Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-07-01 05:47 +0000
        Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-01 17:26 +0000
          Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-07-02 06:23 +0000
            Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-03 03:02 -0400
              Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-07-03 08:41 +0000
  Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 12:35 +0800

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