Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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>Microsoft: No, Sir, you can download the word viewer from the
>microsoft website...
You: shall I install it under /usr/local or under /opt on my Solaris workstation?
Microsoft: Solawhat?
You: No Solaris version? What about Linux?
Microsoft: Linux is evil
You: Nevermind. Just send me a Mac OS X version.
Microsoft: Sorry...
You: I would also write a perl script, that extracts references to local drives from the companys Word documents, moves referenced files to a network drive and changes the document to point to new reference.
Microsoft: We can sell you our brand new .NET package