LCC,
By all means, you are free to say anything you wish. That's all part of the free exchange of ideas in an unmoderated forum like we have here. As long as we don't go over the bounds that Shrapnel considers acceptable, and I don't think we have. (Well, maybe we came close a couple times.
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Cap'n, I am familier with Amiga, but no I've never owned one. I am not a programmer. I can understand why a person coming from a programming perspective would prefer a more open OS.
My point was never that Microsoft was better than Amiga. I was simply trying to point out that the growth of computer hardware over the Last 15-20 years is in large part due to the widespread acceptance of MS as a standard in the industry.
Of course now that computers are firmly intrenched in the fabric of our soceity, there is more of a market for alternate OS's like Amiga to gain a foothold and support themselves. That's a good thing.
Twenty years ago a few percent of the market was too few Users for an OS to survive. Today that same percentage could mean millions of Users. Quite a differance.
I guess to the old saying that you should never talk about religion and politics, we'll have to add operating systems.
Geo
Edit:for spelling. grrrr.
Btw Richard, if switching from NT to Amiga for the Shrapnel server means we can get a spell checker on the forum, I'm all for it.
[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 05 August 2001).]