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manalone · 06-29-2003, 02:47 PM

The competition with open source software seems to be making better products.

The fact that MS have dropped their consumer windows crapola (aka 95/98/me) and gone NT with their line of OSes is a good thing.

yes they are anti-competitive, yes they have crushed their competition mercilessly, but find one market leader in a major industry with clean hands.

Oracle, Intel, MS, Ford, hoover... you name it.

I can't blame them for that.

The only office product I use is powerpoint (and occiasionally excel) I have windows 2k at home because I don't care what OS I use. so long as it does what I want. Similarly, my work computer is red hat 9.0 only, because I am a developer in network software.

Screw advocacy. Corporations are soulless, that's their job. Open source is nice and squishy, but it would not exist if the people working off source forge had paid jobs with real firms.

/me drops €0.02 in the jar

06-29-2003, 02:47 PM	#15 (permalink)
manalone Once upon a time...	The competition with open source software seems to be making better products. The fact that MS have dropped their consumer windows crapola (aka 95/98/me) and gone NT with their line of OSes is a good thing. yes they are anti-competitive, yes they have crushed their competition mercilessly, but find one market leader in a major industry with clean hands. Oracle, Intel, MS, Ford, hoover... you name it. I can't blame them for that. The only office product I use is powerpoint (and occiasionally excel) I have windows 2k at home because I don't care what OS I use. so long as it does what I want. Similarly, my work computer is red hat 9.0 only, because I am a developer in network software. Screw advocacy. Corporations are soulless, that's their job. Open source is nice and squishy, but it would not exist if the people working off source forge had paid jobs with real firms. /me drops €0.02 in the jar __________________ -- Man Alone ======= Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.