Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

[Adam Schrotenboer <ajschrotenboer@lycosmail.com>]

Jim Roland wrote:

>[snip]
>
>>>Get real, look at all the moronic things that various linux distributions
>>>
>do.
>
>>>Is this a reason to hate linux and demand the head of Linus as
>>>
>compensation
>
>>>for your troubles?
>>>
>>>This kind of attitude, and you wonder why MS attacks linux.
>>>
>>Why would that make MS afraid of Linux. It should simply make them
>>ignore them (b/c presumably this would make Linux harmless)
>>
>
>Actually if you would read the tech-news articles closely, you will see they
>are attacking Open Source including the GPL license, not specifically Linux.
>Linux is a threat by default because it's very heavy in GPL.
>
Are you responding to me here, or to the previous statement?

I admit that I may have made a mistake in how I said some things, and 
may have confused some people about how I feel about M$.

M$ is not all bad. Some of their productsa re good. Without M$s efforts 
in the past Linux couldn't be as successful as it is, b/c M$ made the 
IBM clones very cheap, by licensing their products they made PCs into a 
huge market.
(Yes, it could be argued that somebody else could have taken their 
place, their niche. _PLEASE_, try to understand my general points, 
instead of nitpicking inconsequential points.)

I have a problem with M$ getting into the application business, and with 
their insistence on making mediocre software and then bundling it w/ 
Windows. I wish they would focus on their operating system and make it 
good, make it right.

Now it is also arguable that perhaps their is little money in pure 
kernel/OS. And they can make more money w/ apps. But other companies 
have to sell their products by the merits. M$ just sells their name. 
Good for business. bad for customers. Sometimes I think that M$ could 
sell us programs made by monkeys and still make money, as long as the 
programs work w/ Windows (presumably the OS couldn't be by monkeys, 
there has to be something of quality to sell).