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arunpawar:
Hi,im starting this thread to know if there are any myths arround you regarding technology.Ofcourse these myths are in those people with less technical expertise +more social life.There are lot of geeks who know the truth and really laughs at them.In india where i live we've lot of myths about MS,some of the popular myths are:

1. Microsoft windows is the first operating system on the planet,other operating system if exist are copycat of microsoft.
2. All Windows features are copied into apple,and apple never innovates anything.Steve job came into Microsoft  and copied the windows and started the apple macintosh.
3. Opensource and Freeware is threat to software industry,if software not get patented then this will affect jobs in future.
4. Windows operating system is good at provacy than linux or mac.
5. Windows Vista requirs 4GB RAM. :) I laugh,when someone talks vague like this.
6. Norton Antivirus,Quick Heal,E-scan antivirus are the best antivirus.(Even if norton and quick heal eats 60% of your system resources)
7.Linux is most dificult operating system,where is the start button or add-remove programs button? (Where is DOS? :) please don't laugh)


The myths about programming languages spread by teachers and computer training institutes,sales person of software are:

1. Java is outdated,.Net is the programming language of the future and its trend.( :) It doesn't matter if java is cross platform or secure or stable or easy) There will be more jobs for .net than java.
2.To learn C++,you should learn C first otherwise you dont understand the C++.
3. Flash is outdated and Expression Blend is current trend.(  :) Even if Flash i portable over any operating system,has no features copied from any other thing)
4. Maybe someday i might hear Flash is copied from Expression blend :) Ha ha ha

Ok enough with blurb.What are myths in your neighbourhood?Do post about them?Lets laugh on it together.

f0dder:
2. All Windows features are copied into apple,and apple never innovates anything.Steve job came into Microsoft  and copied the windows and started the apple macintosh.

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Do they innovate? They come up with some crappy design that other people don't, but apart from that? Apple steals/borrows as much as everybody else (OS X: basically a mix of BSD and Nextstep, with eyecandy ideas borrowed from elsewhere).

Does sound like people are uninformed, though, but... does that come as a surprise? ^_^

jgpaiva:
Probably this thread's wings should be cutted now, or this is just asking for flame wars...
(not criticizing you, f0dder, i had the same impulse of bad-mouthing apple ;) )

Lashiec:
If you open this thread in Ars Technica Open Forum's Battlefront, you'll get a HUGE flaming war.

f0dder:
If you open this thread in Ars Technica Open Forum's Battlefront, you'll get a HUGE flaming war.
-Lashiec (November 05, 2007, 02:34 PM)
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Much less so here, because DonationCoder is a nice community :-*

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