Lets us recap.
Mircrosoft is a corporation in a captalist nation. Microsoft does not owe allegiance to you, your boss, their customers, the government. They owe alleginace to their stockholders. As such, they don't give a rat's ass what you think of them. They don't care if every one on the planet thinks they sell bloated crap. As long as everyone buys it, they are happy.
Microsoft is trying to take over the world. So is IBM, Oracle, Coca-Cola, Nike, Fisher-price, and others.
Open-source has this big problem, its free. Free things imply that less money can be earned from them. (Generally because they are free) Less money flowing in to microsoft limits their ablity to exert world domination. Their stock holders become sad and leave.
Microsoft is trying to keep their stockholders happy. This means convincing everyone that open source is bad. If microsoft manges to do so, then they move one step closer to world domination.
Go out and ask a random person on the street if he/she/it knows what awk does or what version of Red Hat is best. If they don't deck you on the spot they'll look at you real funny. These are known as common people. Because we are geeks we tend to partake in an elitist movement and forget they exist.
Yes, Virgina, there really are people who don't even know where to get linux, let alone what the hell to do with it.
Most of these people have never even bothered to install windows. It came with their computer. They paid microsoft for it. Microsoft is happy. They don't give flying platutie what that person thinks of windows. As long as Microsoft remains the easiest OS to obtain and use, they can charge eleven fingers for it, and people will pay.
Open source does suck. I can't give most open-source programs to my mom and let her install and use them. It dosen't matter how brillinat you are, the ignorant masses are the ultamite judge of what flies. And they like microsoft.
-Antimorphic
It is a poor mind that can only envison one way to spell a word.
I agree. You can anylze your underlying math stratiges for games to death, but there is some primeval joy from playing half life that no amount of anyalitcal statits will match.
People like to win, zero-sum lets people win.
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Lets us recap. Mircrosoft is a corporation in a captalist nation. Microsoft does not owe allegiance to you, your boss, their customers, the government. They owe alleginace to their stockholders. As such, they don't give a rat's ass what you think of them. They don't care if every one on the planet thinks they sell bloated crap. As long as everyone buys it, they are happy. Microsoft is trying to take over the world. So is IBM, Oracle, Coca-Cola, Nike, Fisher-price, and others. Open-source has this big problem, its free. Free things imply that less money can be earned from them. (Generally because they are free) Less money flowing in to microsoft limits their ablity to exert world domination. Their stock holders become sad and leave. Microsoft is trying to keep their stockholders happy. This means convincing everyone that open source is bad. If microsoft manges to do so, then they move one step closer to world domination. Go out and ask a random person on the street if he/she/it knows what awk does or what version of Red Hat is best. If they don't deck you on the spot they'll look at you real funny. These are known as common people. Because we are geeks we tend to partake in an elitist movement and forget they exist. Yes, Virgina, there really are people who don't even know where to get linux, let alone what the hell to do with it. Most of these people have never even bothered to install windows. It came with their computer. They paid microsoft for it. Microsoft is happy. They don't give flying platutie what that person thinks of windows. As long as Microsoft remains the easiest OS to obtain and use, they can charge eleven fingers for it, and people will pay. Open source does suck. I can't give most open-source programs to my mom and let her install and use them. It dosen't matter how brillinat you are, the ignorant masses are the ultamite judge of what flies. And they like microsoft. -Antimorphic It is a poor mind that can only envison one way to spell a word.
I agree. You can anylze your underlying math stratiges for games to death, but there is some primeval joy from playing half life that no amount of anyalitcal statits will match. People like to win, zero-sum lets people win.
Oh 640k should be enough RAM for anyone -Bill Gates 1980