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| Posted by Anonymous on 04-Nov-2002 23:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (Lando):
>Biased in that it doesn't mention the fact of MOS crashing at any and every
>opportunity - only that the silver cases looked pretty (ain't that sweet).
Perhaps it didn't for that writer. Some said it never crashed for them. But that is hardly my point... See below.
>Mention MOS crashing and you're accused of being biased towards OS4 (see CD's
>comments on the show report that amon re submitted). So I figure glossing over
>it's inadequacies should be just as much of a crime. Right?
Wrong. CD never accused person of bias towards MOS just because they mentioned it crashing (heck, the person even admitted to bias and applauded CD for saying so himself!), just because the posting in question only concentrated on the bugs in MOS (not its features, and believe me, there are plenty of those) while extensively covering OS4 of which much little was shown. Certainly some of this could be attributed to ignorace, but since the author already admitted to bias we can safely conculde it was just that - bias. As CD pointed out.
Back to this article we are commenting... What I strongly disagree with is the silly notion that the article in question here is biased towards MOS. True, it doesn't mention it crashing. Hell, it hardly mentions MOS at all - only the appearance of their stand (the writer probably didn't care or try MOS much, which is ok - no problem with me). Most of the article goes on covering OS4. And does so with very forgiving optimism in my opinion.
My only point was: it is completely crazy to claim this article biased towards MOS when it only discusses their stand very shortly before going on to discuss OS4 very extensively and positively. If anything, the article was ignorant of MOS - be it its strenghtnesses or its weaknesses.
I find it pretty silly that people are cheering immensely for a text based console running a new kernel, without stopping to contemplate possible bugs its end-result may feature when more complete, and go on a bashing spree for another operating system that is presented (and well presented with serious PR effort, might I add, something not evident for OS4) in its full glory, albeit in beta state. Well, I guess that's bias for you.
I just wonder, and I say this with full respect towards Hyperion's efforts, how much a text based console for Quark (MOS kernel) would have meant for you people if OS4 beta would've been up an running on 12 silvery machines next to it...
OS4 fans buning a MOS poster after the show speaks volumes for me. Yeah, that really happened. |
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