Blah blah, i know this is the obligatory comment here, but I've not yet seen a blue screen on Win2k. I had a friend who had a beta video driver (Ring 0) installed and he TELLS me that he got a BSOD, but I never saw it.
Point is, they're pretty rare in Win2k unless you stupidly install buggy kernel-level drivers. I promise you could do the same sort of thing in Linux (think: load up a buggy kernel module. Oops...literally).
You're not as much in the minority as you probably think you are.
I suspect that there are a lot of longtime lurkers here who just shake their heads in disbelief as the rhetoric gets thicker and thicker with each new followup story posting and the guaranteed (predictable) comments attached.
I'm sort of wondering when the "stereotypical" slashdot crowd will tire of bashing Microsoft. ?
> I concur with your first sentence. The last time I checked you HAD to buy Microsoft software. Unless you built those Linux servers from parts, you first had to scrape off whatever flavour of Windows software that was preinstalled. True, it wasn't you who had to buy it. It was Dell or Compaq or HP or whoever made the iron, but the cost was passed on to you, you lucky consumer.
Or you could simply buy a server with no operating system and save a few bucks. Dell, for one, sells their servers with "no os" as an option...
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Point is, they're pretty rare in Win2k unless you stupidly install buggy kernel-level drivers. I promise you could do the same sort of thing in Linux (think: load up a buggy kernel module. Oops...literally).
Maybe it's not a great big MS conspiracy. Perhaps they just made a bad investment.
I suspect that there are a lot of longtime lurkers here who just shake their heads in disbelief as the rhetoric gets thicker and thicker with each new followup story posting and the guaranteed (predictable) comments attached.
I'm sort of wondering when the "stereotypical" slashdot crowd will tire of bashing Microsoft. ?
Or you could simply buy a server with no operating system and save a few bucks.
Dell, for one, sells their servers with "no os" as an option...