Open Source is 'Not Reliable or Dependable'

Exter-C writes "News.com is reporting that Jonathan Murray, the vice president and chief technology officer of Microsoft Europe has made claims that 'some people want to use community-based software, and they get value out of sharing with other people in the community. Other people want the reliability and the dependability that comes from a commercial software model.'"

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quit blaming the user, Microsoft sucks.

[twitter]

If people put the time into Windows that Linux-users put into Linux/OSS (by way of customization, and finding apps and drivers), they'd have a much more reliable machine (than their current Windows install ... I have no desire to compare Windows and Linux). The biggest unreliability with Windows is the stupid things that users do.

You can't blame the user. Apple, Sun and Linux don't have Windoze problems. In the Apple case, the user is less expected to fiddle and may know less about their computer than any other kind of user. Viruses and worms for any system other than Windoze never last long outside a lab. It's not the user's fault that Windows botnets form the backbone of every computer crime network, it's Microsoft's.

Oh yeah, I put much less time and effort into my computers running Linux than I ever did when they ran Windoze. I don't need a firewall for anything more than sharing my cable connection. I don't need to fool with installation and upkeep three or four vendors worth of programs I don't need. With the time it took to work two Windoze computers, I can easily take care of nine gnu/linux boxes. They work faster and better and require much less upkeep. I've never had a virus or lost a file to a system failure. Even hardware failures have been graceful.

Re:*boggle*

[jabelson]

You must have a very different definition of stable than Unix users. Some of us like to be able to connect to the 'net without our machines being compromised.

Is that compromise because of Windows flaws or because of criminals on the 'Net who have nothing better to do? It really suggests that MS is a victim of it's own popularity - and should Unix ever come even close to that popularity, I wonder how long it is before some other OS fan sneers at you dumb ass and antiquated Unix users...

BULLSHIT

[stubear]

". When Microsoft decides that it's time for you to buy the latest version of their OS, you have NO FUCKING CHOICE. That's not dependability."

I am so sick and fucking tired of hearing this argument all the while the same jackasses claim that everybody is still using Office 97. Which is it? Is everybody being forced to upgrade and everyone who claims they're still using Office 97 is full of shit or are people still using Office 97 and you;re full of shit for claimng that Microsoft is forcing you to upgrade? Just because Microsoft stops officially supporting a product does not mean everyone has to run out and get the latest version. I still run Windows 2000 on one of my computers despite Windows XP being available. I have Outlook 2003 running side by side with Office 2000. I guess this answers teh question for you, huh. You're full of shit because I can still use older MS products.

Not onlt that but let me cue you in on something, NOT EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A FUCKING COMPUTER PROGRAMMER!!! Do you undertstand that dickhead? I don't give one rat's ass if I can see the source code or not, the value to me is in the software's ability to function how I need it to, period, end of story. As a graphic and motion graphics/ multimedia designer Open Source software doesn't even enter the radar for me as there are no apps that come close to providing me with the ability to get my work done the way Adobe and Macromedia apps do (amongst others - I still use some Sonic Foundry apps for audio work until I get the hang of Audition). I'm too fuckign busy being creative to spend time mucking around with the code for GIMP or whatever else OSS app supposedly replicates the functionality of the tools I use.

Re:SourceSafe vs CVS

[the-build-chicken]

Marketting Phrases for SVN:

SVN...just like CVS, but slower!!! link
SVN...because everyone in your team should be able to use the command line
SVN...because no one likes running reports anyway!
SVN...who cares if you can't hire anyone to administer it and you have to run costly training for all your new hires.....under the hood, it's cooooooooool!
SVN...look at that money burn!
SVN...client tools will come...just give it time...give it time.
SVN...sure it's not functional, but it sure is l33t...and after all, that's what pays the bills man!
SVN...your developers will be able to really nail unreal tournament in all the down time