Darren New wrote:

> Ummmm. I'll have to beg to differ with you here.  How much software did 
> you use before MS was around?

Quite a lot, actually.

>> After M$, it became somehow "OK" for software to not actually work 
>> properly. If M$ can be credited with one original invention, this is it. 
> 
> I'll disagree with this one too. In some areas, software is like that. 
> Not in all fields, however. When's the last time your DVD player crashed?

DVD player? Actually never.

[It does, however, fail to correctly play a number of DVDs that play 
perfectly OK in other players. And it was NOT a cheap player, by any 
stretch of the imagination. Panasonic too.]

My MP3 player? Roughly once every 4 days. (And it HURTS when it crashes!)

Then I took the firmware supplied by the people who designed and built 
the device and replaced it by something written by a bunch of Internet 
heads in their spare time who didn't even have access to the design 
specs. And you know what? It has about 4x the functionallity, and it 
never, ever, under any circumstances, crashes.

Does that not seem wrong to you? That a bunch of guys in their spare 
time could do a better job than the people you paid money to?

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