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Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion?
rs232 writes "'Apple has one. So does the Java community, Oracle, IBM, and Google. Lord knows anyone who uses Linux or free and open source software is dedicated to spreading the gospel of St. Linus Torvalds and St. Richard Stallman. But does anyone really worship the Gods of Redmond?' While many Microsoft employees are pumped to work there, article author Michael Singer explores why even enthusiastic Microsoft-watchers acknowledge that customers and product developers are unenthusiastic about the software giant. He theorizes that it comes down to passion: Microsoft lost that a long time ago, he says, and so passionate people gravitate to other projects and products."
Microsoft is like Christianity. It's been around for a long time - though there are older religions that are much more revered. It has its own quirks, its not without fallacies though the head proponents like to believe otherwise, and its almost a fashion for 'educated public' to poke holes into it and blame everything on it - although many of the very same people refuse to switch to a new religion when given the opportunity. In spite of its wide and well known drawbacks, it continues to be the most popular religion by far.
Above all, the most striking resemblance is that blind faith seems to be only thing that's holding it up.
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Slasdot is obsessed with MS, everything they do or say is subjected to unending speculation here, albeit negative.
and mostly correct, because M$ is evil.
Outside of Slashdot I dont know a soul who really gives a rats ass what MS do ...
That's because they don't know what M$ does. They know that their computer sucks life more than anything else in their life but they don't know why or that things could be different.
One of the main reasons "normal" people don't know anything different is because people like you, practitioners of the M$ cult. Did you even realize that you were a member of a cult?
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Can you name any fully-featured file systems for Unix that provide transparent compression? How 'bout any Unix that provides transactional file system behavior? Alternate streams/extended attributes that can be read and written as files?
You're looking for ZFS. It's in OpenSolaris, BSD 7.x, and Mac OS X 10.5. Linux has a FUSE port, but until the kernel devs get over their 'rampant layering violation' buggywhip-thought Linux doesn't/won't really have it.
How many versions of Unix have case insensitive file systems? (Personally, I feel that case sensitive file systems should be considered a dated practice.)
All I know about is HFS+, on linux and Mac OS X and ext3ci from fellow Slashdotter Bill Herrin, but that's because I haven't looked to hard. JFS has it too, I think.
Reiser4 provides what I think is a much better model for how to handle that sort of thing.
Agreed, Reiser4 is awesome from this regard. I'm not sure if ZFS is that advanced or not, especially in the realm of semantics.
But the others are things that I wish that Linux had. And that's just looking at the file system.
Would it be too rude for me to say, "look harder"? At a minimum I'm glad you posted the question here before giving up. Have fun!
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OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Vista is far from a disaster.
As for why? Jealously. Lets face it, everyone would love to be as successful as Microsoft are. Apple and Linux aren't even in the same ball park, popular as they are.
You don't worship real gods. Only false gods are worshiped. Real gods are respected, and taken for granted like everything else. That's Microsoft. I have great respect for everything Microsoft. It's all there. And because it's not an escape from other problems, it's work. Microsoft facilitates a great load of wonderful work.
Those people who worship linux as a cult do so because tehy see linux as an escape from the problems of Microsoft. Those are the same people who don't realize that linux has problems of its own. They don't notice those problems because they are too caught up in the escape from the Microsoft problems.
Works with people too. Many run into bad relationships when they run away from others. Alcoholics do it too. Of course, so does slamming your hand in a door. It works very well. But it takes a special kind of superior intelligence to realize that slamming your hand in a door, and being drunk, are merely distractions and not solutions.