Linux Hater's Blog (parody)

[Patton Echols]

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:48:25 -0500, Michael Haney wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>
>>> Another thing is, they're afraid of the Terminal.  These people are
>>> spoiled rotten by Windows!  They don't know what it was really like
>>> during the MS/PC-DOS days.  They're heard rumors and now they equate
>>> anything that involve typing commands as extremely hard and tedious.
>>> Lazy bastards.
>>>
>>>
>> Blaming Windows? What about MacOS or Apple? WHO started the whole GUI
>> business?
>>
>>
> Which platform has had the lion's share of the desktop market for 20
> years?  How many in this current generation of young computer users have
> ever used MS-DOS, ever needed to create a custom boot floppy to get just
> one game to run right, or ever used a computer "without" a GUI interface
> more then just ONCE in their current lifetime?
> 
> Xerox created the GUI, technically.  Apple was the first to commercially
> implemented it, and Micro$oft copied it ... and apparent keep on copying
> it.
> 
> --

Does that make M$ = "Xerox Copier"  ? Just asking . . .