  Re: OT: Re: 2 Questions  On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:13:46 -0400,
you wrote:  >On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:03:30PM -0700, J.C.
Roberts wrote: >-snip longwinded ranbling- >Nobody cares why an
app is fast, they care that when the start it, they >don't need
to go take a nap before it starts up and can be used.    Wrong.
People around here care if programs are correct, compliant,
secure and portable.   "Our efforts emphasize portability,
standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated
cryptography."  >On my >laptop opera takes 3 seconds to load,
and firefox takes 9.  Once running >opera renders pages faster,
and responds faster than mozilla.  Is this >because opera
somehow "cheats"?  I don't know and I don't care, its >usable
and mozilla isn't.  Its the same thing with MS Office vs open
>office, open office is so slow its not worth using, but MS
office works >fine.  And no, they don't need to control the OS
to do that, MS office >under wine is far faster than oo running
natively.  Microsoft putting >e