[svlug] Wheel Mouse Optical... Evil?

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:

> Michael Eric Battle wrote:
> > Then go down to Fry's and buy a non-Micro$oft mouse with 3 buttons, like
> > everybody knows a good UNIX mouse needs anyway, for one-half or
> > one-third
> > of what you paid for the M$ evil mouse, or maybe less.  Personally I
> > kinda
> > like the ones that look like NASCAR race cars.
>
> I have a MS Wheel Mouse Optical for which I paid $5, after rebate.  And
> frankly for the money it is a damn nice piece of hardware.  Luckily for
> me it didn't happen to be on any of the systems on which I run Linux.  I
> would very much like to see the WMO problem fixed, though.
>
> There are few markets where Microsoft has ever really faced real
> competition and succeeded largely by delivering quality products, but
> I'd say that their hardware business is one of them, perhaps the only
> one.

Yeah, that's the thing that kills me about this.  I'd have been more than
happy to see the entire empire chopped up into little pieces, programmers
included, and then burned, so long as the hardware producing departments
stayed intact... but if they're going to screw around and play games like
this, then my money can start going to Logitech.  The worst that I can say
about *their* equipment now is that it's a little weird lookin'.

(Okay, so having the ass of your mouse glow like Rudolph's nose isn't
exactly attractive either...)