J'ai ajouté certains passages (en bleu)... Si vous voyez des erreurs ou si vous avez d'autres idées, elles sont les bienvenues. Merci. Just a small reminder... M$t didn't invented the PC. It's IBM's creation. M$t didn't created MS-Dos. They stole it from IBM. M$t didn't invented the Internet. It's a DOD's project. M$t didn't invented the web. Its CERN that created HTML. M$t didn't invented the graphical user interface. It existed already on Unix and other OS. M$t didn't invented the mouse. It's a military creation used first by Xerox on civilian computers. M$t didn't invented the word processing software. Wordperfect, as example, pre-existed M$t Word. M$t didn't invented the e-mail. It's coming out of Unix and has been standardised by IETF. M$t didn't invented Internet Explorer. They stole it from Spyglass Inc. M$t didn't invented Java. It's a Sun Microsystems's creation. They just released an illegal version of it ("Ms-Java") and were condemned by US courts because of that. They have been forced by law to withdrawn it. M$t didn't invented the BASIC programming language. It's General Electrics. M$t didn't invented the DLL (Dynamic Link Library). It's just the renaming of a mechanism well known on pre-existing OS, such as Unix. M$t didn't invented the Domain Name System, the system that makes Internet addresses understandable (such as "Microsoft.com"). It's Sun Microsystems's creation. and so on... But M$t created the "reset" button on PCs: because their OS are so unstable, there is a physical button or a way to "reset" PCs, that such a feature is mandatory, if you choose one of their buggy OS. But M$t prevented the USB to come to live: USB was specified before Windows 95 was released. But as the inventor of USB didn't grant a gratis, unlimited licence to M$t to support it, then it wasn't part of W95. Neither W98. Then the actual inventor of USB surrendered and gave free licence to M$t to use it. So we enjoy USB on PCs with a delay of about 10 years. Thanks M$t ! But M$t created OS that were not actually OS: by making some software loaders (such as Ms-DOS, W95, W98, W98OSr2, W-Millennium, WCE, ...) that do not support actually true separation between processes, resources, memory, ... they made possible, and even EASY, to write "computer viruses". Well, actually, it should be called "Microsoft-enabed software viruses", because such mechanisms are just impossible on a genuine OS. Then, later, with the help of IBM (who are computer professionals), they released their first real OS: Windows 3.5 and 3.51. But for "backwards compatibility reasons", they maintained actually the compatibility of those OS with the virus propagation mechanism... At that time, proper OS, such as AIX, Unix system V, Solaris, HP-UX, OS/2, ... were virus-proof since long time... M$t created the notion of "proprietary software", sold in binary format (known by M$t captive users as ".exe"). Indeed, until then, the software were sold in source-code format (such as a C compiler), even operating systems (such as AT&T Unix System V), and compiled by their users, depending on the platform architecture (Bull, IBM, Sparc, Apricot, PC, ...) and the kind of CPU. It's M$t that stole us the access to the source code ! M$t created the "one session only" OS. Indeed, the various OS existing at that time were multi-sessions since decades. M$t created the "one user at a time" OS. Since decades, the existing OS knew the notion of multiple users already, allowing multiple users to log in at the same time. M$t created the "one desktop only" OS. Indeed, even on Unix, it was possible to start multiple desktops, sessions, screens, even remotely, on a single computer. M$t created the "Blue Screen Of Death". Nothing similar never happened on proper OS, even pre-existing M$t OS. M$t created lots of proprietary, secret formats, non-interoperable, only usable with the very tool you used to produce it, despite the computer world knew already at that time CPIO or TAR formats, fully portable and compatible data formats. This way, numerous data have been lost with time, such as Ms-Works documents. M$t created lots of sets of characters (such as CP1250, CP1251, CP1252, CP1253, CP1254, CP1255, CP1256, CP1257, CP1258, ...) so that Greek users can't reliably share data with Russians or French users, instead of embracing existing universal standards, such as UTF-8. M$t created the "expensive gift" by "giving" software licences to their victims, that started to use it (from a file server licence to a Ms-Office trial licence), until the software required money to give them back their own data (after the trial period). Its was just the (more or less) legal version of modern ransomware. M$t created the time-limited paying licence, called OEM. Linked with a hardware, when this hardware was to be replaced, the licence (a right to use a software, so not at all related to anything material actually) vanishes, so that you must REPAY for the same service a second or third time. M$t created "the random computer". By design. Implementing the very low level of its communication mechanism on broadcasts (NetBIOS), knowing that broadcasts are NOT GUARANTEED to be received by all the destinations, the behaviours of their computer has always be and still is random by nature. That leads M$t OS users to "retry", which is a NON-SENSE in a causal world as proper operated computers ! M$t didn't bring anything, I really means ANYTHING to the computer world, but bugs, design mistakes, standards violations, incompatibilities, frustrations, customer abuse, fake claims, waste of time and money. Is has been as bad for the computer and software world as Christianity has been for scientific progresses: a disaster. They lost the case, as 90+% of the world's processors are running on Unix variants, including BSD and Linux, but they still abuse the low-end users, that still think "Windows run on 98% of the computers", so that it should be good, or at least the only choice. There is indeed no choice any more. Just run the Linux flavour that best fits your needs. -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 58, rue d'Esch L-3720 Rumelange Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Phone: +352-20.333.222-69 Fax: +352-20.333.222-19 URL: http://BFrere.net _______________________________________________ Lilux-info mailing list Lilux-info(a)lilux.lu https://www.lilux.lu/mailman/listinfo/lilux-info