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by **Ruud Dingeman** » Fri, 07 Feb 2003 14:43:17

> PC's. This being a mostly PC-centric group is no place to be bashing a
> PC.

Agreed. I have both, Macs and PC (even "the" pc), and well, I can only
say it's bad enough for those poor Repentium owners already.

Regards, Ruud

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Fri, 07 Feb 2003 14:52:38

> Fair enough, but the total ratio is still overwhelmingly in fav of of a
> MS product....:-)

Hey Goy, that should be 8( or :P or maybe :/, not :)

Tux sez hi to MS every day, too. Actually, Tux sez "Dodge this." ;)

Regards, Ruud

by **Eldre** » Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:07:22

What the hell does "kajagoogoo" mean anyway? I remember an '80's band by that
name...

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by **Goy Larse** » Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:09:11

> I'm not so sure about that.

> Toss in the Lotus servers, Linux servers and Netscape servers (plus whatever
> I missed), and i'm not convinced Exchange is even close to monopoly levels.

Right...although I was actually talking about the client here, but I
don't mind a quick lesson in mail server 1-0-1 :-)

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by **Goy Larse** » Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:13:41

> > Fair enough, but the total ratio is still overwhelmingly in fav of of a
> > MS product....:-)

> Hey Goy, that should be 8( or :P or maybe :/, not :)

Possibly, but I actually like the fact that MS has a strong presence, I
just wish there were more products that could keep ut with them so we
could have a bit more competition

<woosh>

Huh ?

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by **Joe6** » Sun, 09 Feb 2003 04:18:08

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:07:31 GMT, "Dave Boyle"

>From what I understand, you need completely different programmers for each
>platform.

Not really, though it's closer to the truth for driving sims. But
that's because of the different users and game goals, not for
technological reasons.

We have one team, one code base, developing for three consoles
simultaneously (we could do PC too).

by **Joe6** » Sun, 09 Feb 2003 04:19:01

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:07:31 GMT, "Dave Boyle"

>Actually, I'm thinking that the only real reason to acquire Papyrus is
>because it comes with Sierra and Blizzard, almost as an afterthought.

Good point.

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Sun, 09 Feb 2003 15:36:50

>>(Besides, Macs aren't Macs anymore, Apple makes Unix machines now, we're
> Yea, but PC's have had Unix availalbe to it for many years already. I
> have four copies of Linux right here now.

Um, I should perhaps mention that the Mac's precursor, the Lisa, had a
Xenix version yonks before Linux even existed - 1984'ish :)

Regards, Ruud

PS. It's no GPL though - GNU Public License that is ;)

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Sun, 09 Feb 2003 15:49:00

>>>And thank god for that or it would be a *total* monopoly out there

>>Tux sez hi to MS every day, too. Actually, Tux sez "Dodge this." ;)
> <woosh>

> Huh ?

That was the sound of a penguin flying by (vertically I suppose ;)

A bird associated with certain operating systems, to be precise.. Tux is
its name.

Regards, Ruud

by **Goy Larse** » Sun, 09 Feb 2003 21:53:41

> >>>And thank god for that or it would be a *total* monopoly out there

> >>Tux sez hi to MS every day, too. Actually, Tux sez "Dodge this." ;)

> > <woosh>

> > Huh ?

> That was the sound of a penguin flying by (vertically I suppose ;)

> A bird associated with certain operating systems, to be precise.. Tux is
> its name.

Ah, of course

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