🚀 go-pugleaf

>Hello,

>I do not usually cross post, so please forgive me.

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>"Well, things didn't go so well when my prof buddy talked to xxxxxx's 
>sysop.
> In the sysop's words, "(we) are trying to get all DOS programs off 
>campus,
>since they are obsolete, will not continue to be supported in the future, 
>and
>are not as popular nor as robust as their Windows counterparts."  I don't
>know about you guys, but this is very discouraging to me.  I will use and
>program for Win3.1 and Win95, but I feel like I've been railroaded by 
>Bill
>Gates.  Tis a dark day for the intelligent computer user..."
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Much as I hate to respond to a cross-post, I agree.  This has always been a 
pet-peeve of mine.  When this industry started out, we could write virtually 
anything we knew how to code.  These days a certain Mr. Gates is planning to 
tell us that we can't code anything at all unless it runs in Windows...

That ain't right.

So, to do my part, I will continue (as I have in the past) to boycott MS Win.  
I won't code for it whenever humanly possible, much as I may be depriving 
users of my software.  I hope that other programmers out there will strongly 
consider doing likewise, at least until Gates acknowledges that there IS 
something else out there besides Windows.

And, until that date, I'm doing DOS and Linux.

I remember, awhile back, an Outland strip in which Opus suggested to Bill 
Gates (in the dandelion patch) that he put a virus in everyone's computers 
which would be set to go off in a few years...  Looks like Mr. Gates was 
listening...

Anybody with me, or do I flame in vain?


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