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73026<i>This is one reason that MSFT has survived this technology recession (dejonkai-11/14/2002
73025KDE 3.1 is already out in beta and is out this year. Of course changes have to bdybdahl-11/14/2002
73024Good article. IBM gets something that jonkai can't seem to get. From your David Howe-11/14/2002
73023It sounds like IBM's customers have been complaining to them about MicrosoftCharles Tutt-11/14/2002
73022IBM Has a Vision Too Here's its answer to all those frustrated tech customeRusty Johnson-11/14/2002
73021Agreed, see my edit on the prior post. SUNW is the one that's losing the biDavid Howe-11/14/2002
73020Linux runs well ... on Intel and Dell machines. Explain this: Apache 64.85% Rusty Johnson-11/14/2002
73019Rusty, Explain this. (Actually Charles is the one on the hot seat since Intel sDavid Howe-11/14/2002
73018The point of the article is that <b>changes had to be made to accomodate UDiViT-11/14/2002
73017Linux IS significantly better. Not just a better OS. A better model for writingRusty Johnson-11/14/2002
73016UTF16 support for Linux isn't necessary - only for compatibility issues withdybdahl-11/14/2002
73015Those criticisms seem to distill down into one complaint: "It's differCharles Tutt-11/14/2002
73014Whatever Rusty, To quote the author, "Linux is a desktop dud". He exDavid Howe-11/14/2002
73013Why Linux is a Desktop Dud By Don Soegaard Special to ZDNet <I>Why isn&Rusty Johnson-11/14/2002
73012<< yawn >> Are you still yawning? Looks like MSFT has broken out oDavid Howe-11/14/2002
73011Who cares. If I'm a user I don't care if it's UTF-8 or WTF-64, if iDiViT-11/14/2002
73010washingtonpost.comSpytrdr-11/14/2002
73009Right - so now we only need: 1) The rest of the applications should use UTF-8 idybdahl-11/14/2002
73008Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $421m to fight Linux News from India and some leSpytrdr-11/13/2002
73007"Btw - I noticed that notepad in Windows XP supports UTF-8" Exactly, sDiViT-11/13/2002
73006You forget that most string handling today is done by pre-made components. Most dybdahl-11/13/2002
73005BTW how well does strchr() work on a UFT-8 String? strlen() counts bytes so how DiViT-11/13/2002
73004Basically the internal file format of zip is an 8-bit character set. On ISO8859-dybdahl-11/13/2002
73003It's pretty easy for pseudo-scholars like Wheeler to denigrate Microsoft'QwikSand-11/13/2002
73002Score: Apache 59.9% MSFT 29.2% netcraft.com Not that the score matters. The trRusty Johnson-11/13/2002
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