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Why The U.S. Surrendered To Microsoft
hoggardb writes: "The Nation has an excellent column by Eben Moglen, general counsel of the FSF, on why the U.S. has surrendered to Microsoft: because the big campaign contributors like Hollywood and PC manufacturers now want Microsoft to stay a monopoly." Not everyone will agree about the PC makers, but the Hollywood argument is harder to sidestep. The free-marketeer in me especially likes the last paragraph -- Moglen didn't get to be general counsel of the FSF for nothing.
Sung to the tune of the Village People song "Macho Man". Italicized parentetical statements should be spoken in between sung parts of the chorus. "Goatse" should be pronounced "goatsay" or "goatseh". Ready? Here we go.
Ev'ryone you know has seen that goatse-goatse man,
Stretchin' out his anus as wide as he can!
Prolapsin' that rectum, go man go!
Showin the whole world his giant butt hole!
Ev'rybody wants to meet the goatse-goatse man,
He's been grossin' out web surfers from Maine to Pakistan!
You can see his picture on goatse dot c-x,
But who can say they've met him in the flesh?
Hey, Hey, Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
Goatse-goatse man!)
(Doesn't that hurt?)
I want to meet the goatse man!
Goatse-goatse man!
(What's the biggest object you ever fit in there?)
Where are you goatse man?!?!
(four-to-the-three-to-the-two-to-the-one-and...
Goatse-goatse man!
(Can I have your autograph?)
I want to meet the goatse man!
Goatse-goatse man!
(So, what are some of your other hobbies?)
WHERE ARE YOU GOATSE MAN?!?!
Lyrics are freely distributable under the GPL, the Goatse Public License.
PS: If anyone has any MP3's (or any other un-hindered audio format) on their disk in ~10 years, I'll change my name.
I'm going to make it a point to save at least one MP3, just so I can you on that.
Furthermore, Microsoft is second best at everything, which is not an easy task in itself. I've used almost all of Microsoft's current software, and the fact that you can get the second best webserver with the second best scripting language, that's ready to integrate with the second-best database is definitely a nice feature. And installation and management is a no-brainer for the most part.
This, combined with a comparable pricetag to the other commercial products makes Microsoft a good all around choice for business.
I've tried to convince my company to switch at least some of their applications to linux, but the cons always outweigh the pros in managements eyes. Support is always an issue, and to them an army of programmers who code for the love of coding simply cannot compete with the paid drones of Microsoft. Besides, nobody gets fired for buying MS
If Linux only had all the pretty pictures of NT, the argument might have gone the other way. Thus is the Dilbert rule.
This article has no business being on Slashdot and is just more anti-Microsoft zealotry.
It's at least interesting that The Nation ran this with no apparent understanding of the amount of questionable rhetoric it contains.
I survived the Dick Cheney Presidency 7 to 9 AM 7-21-07
How is getting rid of the Win3.11/Win9x codebase innovative? Linux did this years ago.
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no *NIX and lots of women are teh components of a perfect world.
actually, the perfect world would have *NIX and women both and lots of it.