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To: philetus
Racists love to laugh at Africa and ask what Africa is producing in the way of cars these days, but African software ingenuity is no joke. Aside from Ubunto LINUX, which entire nations are standardizing by the way and that includes European nations and not just African nations, there is the question of a decent Windows install routine.

In particular, InstallShield, which MicroSoft tries to force developers to use, is a total piece of crap and spending a day dealing with it is enough to make any developer sick. There are only two decent install programs to my knowledge, which are Setup Factory and ChiefPro, the later being the work of of a gentleman by the name of Abimbala Olowofoyeku, originally of Nigeria.

In other words, a single African working alone has produced a totally workable and usable product where the mighty Microsoft Megalith has failed.


84 posted on 03/25/2006 4:56:13 PM PST by tomzz
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To: tomzz

The problem with MSFT is that at they frequently have only $5 Billion to spend on and R&D project that should cost $5 million.


113 posted on 03/25/2006 6:52:29 PM PST by Sunnyflorida ((Elections Matter)
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To: tomzz

nice post and nice information


153 posted on 03/25/2006 10:08:30 PM PST by dennisw (-Muslim's biggest enemy is the founder of Islam. Muslims are victims of this evil con artist-)
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To: tomzz

"mighty Microsoft Megalith has failed."

The problem with MSFT is that when you only have $5 billion to spend on a project that should take $5 million you are bound to run into delays and bugs.


189 posted on 03/26/2006 4:25:15 PM PST by Sunnyflorida ((Elections Matter)
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