[NTLUG:Discuss] ..free choice -- and XP/ Passport- HERE HERE!

[greenglow484@juno.com]

Richard --

Good on ya.  I submitted that link to Linux Today last week, and they
didn't publish it.  I meant to post it to this list, and I just forgot.  

I am uncomfortable recommending *any* MS OS to anyone, but if I did,
Win2K would perhaps be somewhat more likely, and XP not at all, for the
reasons Livingston cited, and others --  the compulsory registration (and
whatever snooping MS does on people when that's done, although they deny
it); the forced use of Passport and the ensuing revelation of financial,
shopping and other private, personal data to a MS-related server off
somewhere; and so on.

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:58:05 -0500 "Richard Geoffrion"
<ntlug at rain.lewisville.tx.us> writes:
> And don't forget the column Brian Livingston, a long time Author on 
> the
> inner workings of MS Windows, wrote about XP.  You can read the full 
> column
> at 
>
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/08/011008oplivingston.xml
> 
> I hope the industry takes this opportunity to push towards other 
> platforms.
> 
> If the MAC OSX is unix based...does that mean that an application 
> written
> for OSX would be or could be linux compatible?

Someone else who is more knowledgeable than I will have to respond to
that one;  Dunno.  I would think it would open up a lot more
compatibility.
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