[meadsjn]

Here's the message that computer and OS makers have never gotten through their retarded noggins:

Most companies do not, cannot, and never intended to try to make a profit with 99% of their workforce dinking around with the operating system kinks and barbs for 99% of their time.

Businesses need STABLE desktop and laptop operating systems and applications to conduct THEIR BUSINESS, to read and write business stuff, to send and receive email, to move files from one system to another (usually across multiple platforms), to design stuff, buy stuff, sell stuff, etc., etc.; none of which is enhanced by having everyone tinkering with the operating system all day, every day.

Many of us have wasted days, nights, and weekends playing techie since the days of DOS 0.00001, and it doesn't move the economy forward. It eventually puts us 17 Trillion in debt.

[djf]

Believe it or not, I still have a faded, old 6 inch floppy that says... “IBM DOS 1.2” on the label. Single sided, 160KB.

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Them was the daze!!

[CodeToad]

I hardly think OSes put this country into debt.