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1. Comment - AOL Marshals Troops Against MS XP Offensive

   (May 6, 2001 - 5:59 AM)

   Ok, AOL needs an OS. Not Windows, but an OS. Could have been OS2 if it had succeeded. Could have been a variety of OSes all using the same standards, as there used to be multiple DOSes, there could have been (and could be) multiple more advanced OSes all based on the same standards, with none having a huge market majority with which to kill the others whether they are better or not. That sentence was hairy, but you get my point. You can't say AOL wouldn't have existed without Windows. If there had been a different popular OS or set of OSes, AOL would have run on that (or those).
   
   I am beginning to wonder if anyone here is not a troll. I don't anger, btw, I just keep arguing, so don't bother trolling me, I'll just have fun arguing. I don't see how people can get angry over text hehe.

2. Comment - AOL Marshals Troops Against MS XP Offensive

   (May 6, 2001 - 5:41 AM)

   First, the dictionary definition of Communism, or the description Marx gave it, is completely valid and is not to be dismissed.
   BUT,
   I am REALLY sick of people slamming other people for equating communism with command-and-control economies and totalitarianism when we all have a very good reason to equate them, which is 80 years (and counting) of use of the term by certain command-and-control economists and totalitarianists to describe their approach to government and the market.
   
   Feel free to point out the dictionary definition, but DO NOT slam people for having their defintion clouded by 80 years of evil men abusing the ideal. You cannot erase all that. It's dangerous to try.

3. Comment - AOL Marshals Troops Against MS XP Offensive

   (May 6, 2001 - 5:31 AM)

   If Microsoft was that good at integration, they wouldn't feel the need to lock everyone else out while they were at it. Locking other people out is extra effort for them, but worth it if they can continue to have a guaranteed tax on every PC sold. It is easier to engineer things when they are modular. I'm not saying the top layer the user sees has to be modular and overladen with choice or configurability, but underneath it is very important, to make things easier for the programmers. Modular is Good. The IE "integration" was decreed from the top and caused a lot of trouble internally. Microsoft specifically hurts its designs when aiming to lock out others.