Open Letter to a Digital World

jg21 writes "Exasperated after spending 5 hours removing spyware and trojans from his wife's Windows PC, sysadmin Chris Spencer has written an impassioned Open Letter to a Digital World. In the letter he reviews the 'elephants in the closet' - i.e. unfixed bugs and glaring security vulnerabilities - that Microsoft in his view hopes ordinary users will ignore, including some discussed in previous Slashdot stories."

Comments

Re:I don't get it.

[smallfeet]

So what, has MS outsources the shills now also? You would think this would require native english speakers on this forum at least.

Re:I got it a long time ago

[Twirlip of the Mists]

More on the pro-Linux side, of course, because most people here are a) geeks, b) more informed

See? That's it, right there. It's this "I'm right, you're wrong" mentality. If somebody were to come in here and say, "You know, I just don't like Linux at all. I much prefer Windows," he'd be shouted down as a fool, or as a paid Microsoft shill.

And the ones who say that they don't like Linux at all and prefer Mac OS X are dismissed as "fanboys," whatever that means.

The problem here is that there's this self-reinforcing cult of personality around Linux on this site. And you're participating in it. Whether you mean to or not.

I'm going to say something now, and I want you think notice how you react to it: I think Linux stinks. I've used it, extensively, and while it does have its merits, I think it stinks. Things that should be easy are hard, none of the applications I use every day will run on it, alternatives suggested to me (Firefox over Safari, Thunderbird over Mail, Gimp over Photoshop, nothing over InDesign) don't stack up, and it's just plain ugly to look at all day.

That's my opinion. But on this site, that's the sort of thing that people will argue with me about.

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