Why will you continue to support Microsoft or help in the development with the use of Linux? ?
Monday, August 10th, 2009 at
05:18
Will you continue to support Microsoft or help in the development with the use of Linux? Why?
Tagged with: Linux • Microsoft
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I don’t exactly take joe.attaboy’s dour view but close. This is going to attract us Linux users. I send crash reports and so on out all the time. So I support Linux. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates share many things, but in Gates’s case he seems completely blind to the fact that his behavior has been found criminal by a court in the anti-trust trial and ONLY because Bush’s Justice Department asked the court to lift the ruling was his company not broken up. Jobs is not always admirable, but he is not criminal.
One thing I do admire about Jobs and his products are his cutting edge sense of design and his determination that all his products be gorgeous. Gates and now Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu don’t get it. The Mac AND Linux can only flourish in an environment where it is accepted that not everyone does the same things with their computer. Shuttleworth thinks he can compete with the Mac environment while throwing engineers the kinds of money Jobs has been throwing at MFAs (Masters of Fine Arts). Duh.
So the real answer to your question is, I doubt I’ll support Microsoft but why do you see it and Open Source as the only alternatives? They’re not.
I plug Linux all the time, especially on this site. My stock answer to the question "what is the best (anti-virus, security, spyware) software?" is Linux.
I also attach this link:
http://www.linux.com/whatislinux/119700
Personally, I will not support Microsoft (or Apple, which is almost as bad) in any way. Free/Open Source Software is not the future, it’s NOW.
The idea that people are willing to put up with the crap they do from Windows, when a safer, more stable and FREE operating system is available just makes me shake my head in wonder.
Linux is not hard to use. Somethings are "different", but not difficult to master in no time. You can get any version of Linux you want, even one specifically for your needs. You can customize it any way you want, and give copies away to everyone you know.
Everyone should walk into the light.