It would also make hunting a real pain in the (*#$*^$* ! Imagine usuing your XJ-11 stun/imobilizer on a deer, it goes down, you go to collect it, and suddenly it gores you! "Gee, I sure miss my Remington", you'll be thinking.
-Markvs
..."shoot the deer. The auto accident you prevent may be your own! Eat the deer. They're great with french fries!"
I work with NT at work (and am an MCSE, boo and hiss if you want), but I also have a Red Hat box at home. It's nice, no question.
Here's a point that I think is missed: NT and Linux are about the same age! Both really got underway in the late 80's/early 90's (depending on your dating system), and both are based on UNIX. (Just how many of you knew what Microsoft's first product was? XENIX.) NT has made huge gains in the Enterprise market, considering it started from ZERO and is 1/2 to 1/3 the age of most flavors of UNIX.
Funny, how many folks here will poo-poo that accomplishment, yet praise Linux for it's growth.
Anyway, all I really want to say is this: MS is no more the evil empire than IBM was, or Commodore back in the 8 bit days. It's cool to hate the establishment, but ultimately it is just hot air. The market will change on it's own, it always does.
Also, if any of you owned Microsoft instead of Bill Gates and didn't try to co-opt or take out the cometition, you're either very noble or an idiot. That's why it's called business! Fair is not part of the businessman's lexicon!
If Linux (somehow) slays Microsoft and becomes the OS de jure in, say, 2004... what happens next? Will a bunch of folks, disguntled at how standardized Linux had to become to support all the hardware and apps out there splinter off and make yet ANOTHER OS?
Just my rant, Markvs
...There are no such things as orbital mind control lasers.
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It would also make hunting a real pain in the (*#$*^$* ! Imagine usuing your XJ-11 stun/imobilizer on a deer, it goes down, you go to collect it, and suddenly it gores you! "Gee, I sure miss my Remington", you'll be thinking.
-Markvs
..."shoot the deer. The auto accident you prevent may be your own! Eat the deer. They're great with french fries!"
I work with NT at work (and am an MCSE, boo and hiss if you want), but I also have a Red Hat box at home. It's nice, no question.
Here's a point that I think is missed: NT and Linux are about the same age! Both really got underway in the late 80's/early 90's (depending on your dating system), and both are based on UNIX. (Just how many of you knew what Microsoft's first product was? XENIX.) NT has made huge gains in the Enterprise market, considering it started from ZERO and is 1/2 to 1/3 the age of most flavors of UNIX.
Funny, how many folks here will poo-poo that accomplishment, yet praise Linux for it's growth.
Anyway, all I really want to say is this: MS is no more the evil empire than IBM was, or Commodore back in the 8 bit days. It's cool to hate the establishment, but ultimately it is just hot air. The market will change on it's own, it always does.
Also, if any of you owned Microsoft instead of Bill Gates and didn't try to co-opt or take out the cometition, you're either very noble or an idiot. That's why it's called business! Fair is not part of the businessman's lexicon!
If Linux (somehow) slays Microsoft and becomes the OS de jure in, say, 2004... what happens next? Will a bunch of folks, disguntled at how standardized Linux had to become to support all the hardware and apps out there splinter off and make yet ANOTHER OS?
Just my rant,
Markvs
...There are no such things as orbital mind control lasers.