____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 20 February 2008 07:00 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 19 February 2008 10:11 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 19 February 2008 07:53 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> ____/ RonB on Sunday 17 February 2008 20:52 : \____
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Time to dump Windows?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>> | "Don't be afraid. Just switch to Linux and become a member of a
>>>>>>>> | really free society," wrote Carlos Raul Gutierrez.
>>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/17/08NF-vista-alternatives_1.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From the article:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Windows Vista was the reason I bought a Mac mini. I didn't want my
>>>>>>> only choices to be an operating system that would soon be obsolete (XP)
>>>>>>> or one that was buggy and would break much existing hardware (Vista),
>>>>>>> and I'm not enough of a geek to use Linux (do things from the command
>>>>>>> line? Puhleeze...)," wrote "Jack."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, Linux users don't have KDE or Gnome or Xfce -- we're all just
>>>>>>> geeks who do everything from the command line. Hell, we don't even know
>>>>>>> what a mouse is.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Talk about your straw men.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I spotted that and I know the source of /that/ FUD. "It's only for
>>>>>> servers" is another meme.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The FUD generation teams *have* to keep spouting this misinformation,
>>>>> otherwise Mac users will try Ubuntu and move.
>>>>
>>>> Their FUD/lies this month are centred around ODF/OOXML though, not Linux.
>>>>
>>>> To use Microsoft's colourful phrase, if OOXML is intercepted, "Microsoft
>>>> is tilted into a death spiral."
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're right, of course. Even so, I suspect that even if they are
>>> successful in corrupting enough governments that they can force a
>>> positive vote for their proprietary OOXML, it will not be enough to
>>> rescue them. They appear unable to contemplate a business model which
>>> is *not* based on abusing their customers.
>>
>> They ought to worry about the evidence that's being collected as they risk
>> resorting to such dirty deeds. Many people from country x search for 'ooxml
>> x', find out what Microsoft did in their country and share this with friends
>> in forums (I say this based on experience). They never touch Microsoft wares
>> ever again and they complain to the authorities. Microsoft plays a dangerous
>> game here. On the Internet, people talk.
>>
>> There's also the stash from Iowa, largely unexplored and here to stay and
>> tell more stories.
>>
>
> We need to get our man back onto that :-)
Most of Doug's posts are up on the Web now (outside Google Groups, also via
HTTP). There's sorting work to be done.
Maybe Gates' Museum of Wind... errr... 'Computing' would like to have copies
for historians to study this?
--
~~ Best of wishes
"Monopoly raises two classes of problems for a free society. First, the
existence of monopoly means a limitation on voluntary exchange through a
reduction in the alternatives available to individuals. Second, the existence
of monopoly raises the issue of “social responsibility”, as it has come to be
called, of the monopolist."
--Milton Friedman
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