I was very impressed by Rafe Needleman's editorial on Microsoft ("Why I Love/Hate Microsoft," August). I have always felt that those who bashed Microsoft for the way it does business were simply suffering sour grapes. They were upset at the fact that they didn't market their products or ideas as well as Microsoft does.
Gerry O'Brien
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
gerryobr@nbnet.nb.ca
I am amused by the resentment and furor emanating from Microsoft bashers. In your recent editorial, I sense that you dislike the company when you use phrases such as "Evil Beast" and "corporate arrogance." If Microsoft does not understand the corporate market, it can hardly be called arrogant. Ignorant, perhaps, but not arrogant. Windows is not perfect, but neither is anything else created by human beings. Show me a DOS,
Mac, or OS/2 user who never had to reboot his or her computer and I will show you a bridge for sale.
Gary Wong
Oakland, CA
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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