Freedom and corporate control will follow the way of the frog. Drop the frog in lukewarm water and heat it up slowly, and it will die from being boiled alive. Drop the frog into boiling water, and it'll try and escape.
The only difference is that humans are much more picky. Because of that, the water doesn't have to be boiling, but just uncomfortably hot. If Microsoft continues to slow-boil everyone with their software strategies, people won't rise up because they won't know what's happening exactly. If Microsoft springs something on people that are really outrageous, we damn well will be hopping mad.
I believe Microsoft will screw up royally one of these days and people will actually see that they're being bullied into something they don't or won't like. It will come, most assuredly....
People are complaining about installing, learning curves and the like, but... think about it. Macintosh and Windows pre-built computers come with operating systems already installed, with tutorials to guide so-called "newbies" through everything. Is there a doubt that pre-built Linux machines could be the same? Techies build their own machines, meaning they should be adept at adapting to the software they're using, yet non-techies usually buy name-brand computers for various reasons. The Techie part of the community is being satistfied, but not the newbies. The overall point is that it won't be hard to satistfy the newbie market IF Linux can get the push up to global fame like Windows or Mac, though it's already well on it's way to that fame.
In time, everyone will get their way with Linux... it's just our job to spread the Linux gospel, so to speak.
Besides bloodline, why should family come first? They're people like the rest of the world. Save more, and less will suffer. It's self sacrifice which makes killing your family more humane than killing all of Alaska.
Oh, and does it count if you're molested by your mother? I'm not too sure on that one o_o;
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Freedom and corporate control will follow the way of the frog. Drop the frog in lukewarm water and heat it up slowly, and it will die from being boiled alive. Drop the frog into boiling water, and it'll try and escape.
The only difference is that humans are much more picky. Because of that, the water doesn't have to be boiling, but just uncomfortably hot. If Microsoft continues to slow-boil everyone with their software strategies, people won't rise up because they won't know what's happening exactly. If Microsoft springs something on people that are really outrageous, we damn well will be hopping mad.
I believe Microsoft will screw up royally one of these days and people will actually see that they're being bullied into something they don't or won't like. It will come, most assuredly....
People are complaining about installing, learning curves and the like, but... think about it. Macintosh and Windows pre-built computers come with operating systems already installed, with tutorials to guide so-called "newbies" through everything. Is there a doubt that pre-built Linux machines could be the same? Techies build their own machines, meaning they should be adept at adapting to the software they're using, yet non-techies usually buy name-brand computers for various reasons. The Techie part of the community is being satistfied, but not the newbies. The overall point is that it won't be hard to satistfy the newbie market IF Linux can get the push up to global fame like Windows or Mac, though it's already well on it's way to that fame.
In time, everyone will get their way with Linux... it's just our job to spread the Linux gospel, so to speak.
Besides bloodline, why should family come first? They're people like the rest of the world. Save more, and less will suffer. It's self sacrifice which makes killing your family more humane than killing all of Alaska.
Oh, and does it count if you're molested by your mother? I'm not too sure on that one o_o;