Portable SciPy v0.1 released

[Alex Martelli]

Beliavsky <beliavsky at aol.com> wrote:

> On Apr 27, 6:17 pm, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nos... at mailbox.kun.nl>
> wrote:
> > Portable SciPy, is an easy installer of SciPy for M$ windows users.
> 
> If you have an announcement for Windows users, I suggest that you not
> needlessly turn them off by abbreviating Microsoft as M$ . You don't
> like Windows, but many of us Windows users don't like the anti-Windows
> snobs. There is nothing wrong with making money by selling software.

Speaking as a Microsoft stockholder, and having recently broken out the
champagne because MSFT is finally back over $30 again [1] (and hoping
this time is STAYS that way, as opposed to the flash-in-the-pan at the
end of January) I'm perfectly happy with seeing $ associated to
Microsoft, for a change.  I entirely agree about making money by selling
software, and indeed that's why I'm a stockholder -- now if you could
just convince Ballmer and friends that making money by selling SW is
better than losing money by failing to sell online ads and music players
(and just about breaking even with videogame HW, thanks be for Sony's
incredible mistakes in the field that allowed Microsoft to "stay above
water") then I won't be the only MSFT stockholder to want to offer you a
steak dinner (warning: excess of steak dinners might raise your LDL
cholesterol!-).

Microsoft can still make kick-ass software, if need be by hiring the
right people, and they proved it well with IronPython, IMHO.  They
obviously _can't_ do as well in HW and online services; if they stopped
throwing good money after bad, and instead raised the dividend and
renewed and increased the stock-repurchase program, that would be great
for the economy of Western France (and Catalunya, for those who prefer
cava, etc -- basically, all regions that export champagne!-).


Alex

[1] yah, I do remember MSFT flirting with $60 [considering the early'03
split] at the end of '99 -- that was just Wall Street being crazy, and
the fall from THOSE heights is NOT any fault of Microsoft's management.
The interminable last 5+ years below $30, OTOH...