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Article #55032Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux
From: Elliot Lee
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00
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On 18 Aug 1997 22:33:03 GMT, Dr. Who <mind@ripco.com> wrote: >: I agree. What we need is support for plug and play. You will probably >: say Plug and Play sucks, but it works fine on my win 95 installation. > >See, this is exactly what I"m talking about. WHY do we need plug and pray >support? It just increases the size of the kernel. It's helping along >those companies that are manufacturing "non-standard" or "incompatible" >hardware. Basically, you're helping MS if you buy plug and pray crap. >Besides, plug and pray is not known for its quality... That's why things like PCI exist... -- Elliot - http://www.redhat.com/ What's nice about GUI is that you see what you manipulate. What's bad about GUI is that you can only manipulate what you see. | http://www.cauce.org/ | http://www.linuxnet.org/ |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: faa64,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,42462d786437a1a1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: sopwith@lacrosse.redhat.com (Elliot Lee) Subject: Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux Date: 1997/08/19 Message-ID: <slrn5vi9rq.dg0.sopwith@lacrosse.redhat.com> X-Deja-AN: 268423173 References: <rgw-ya023080002907971402460001@newshost.unimelb.edu.au> <33EAC7FE.8D8D2C2C@syd.net.au> <slrn5uts20.ta3.mjr@laulujoutsen.pc.helsinki.fi> <4u7mdlwgn3.fsf@schroedinger.adelaide.maptek.com.au> <33f79556.22571665@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <5t8d26$1gv$1@gail.ripco.com> <xohn2mf8t0h.fsf@mud.imperium.net> <33f8b83d.10600351@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <5taiiv$83n$1@gail.ripco.com> Organization: Columbia Union College Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x