Um actually the article clearly states that they are comparing Windows XP Professional to the GPL.
"The Microsoft Windows XP Professional End User License Agreement was selected as representative of the current-generation licence provided by Microsoft for business-grade systems."
In our CS department, University of Illinois at Champaign, we have a buffet of OS's. A few labs are linux, more are SUN machines (kill me!) and the rest are windows 2000. So if you are in progamming courses you get to use visual studio sometimes or play with gcc and makefiles at other times. It's nice to be able to pick and choose depending on what your are doing that day. Though I'm sure that supporting this setup is a pain.:-)
Last weekend I was priviliged enough to hear Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, give a talk on how he came up with tetris, the design process of games, etc... The best part was at the end somene asked him about the dificulty of Tetris and he replied that even though he knew that each piece had the same probabilty (because he coded it) there must be some little guy inside the computer purposefully giving him the 'wrong' pieces and witholding the one he needed, "that Son-of-a-bitch!" (yes, he actually said that)
It's reasurring to know that even HE thinks it's rigged.
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"The Microsoft Windows XP Professional End User License Agreement was selected as representative of the current-generation licence provided by Microsoft for business-grade systems."
In our CS department, University of Illinois at Champaign, we have a buffet of OS's. A few labs are linux, more are SUN machines (kill me!) and the rest are windows 2000. So if you are in progamming courses you get to use visual studio sometimes or play with gcc and makefiles at other times. It's nice to be able to pick and choose depending on what your are doing that day. Though I'm sure that supporting this setup is a pain. :-)
Last weekend I was priviliged enough to hear Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, give a talk on how he came up with tetris, the design process of games, etc... The best part was at the end somene asked him about the dificulty of Tetris and he replied that even though he knew that each piece had the same probabilty (because he coded it) there must be some little guy inside the computer purposefully giving him the 'wrong' pieces and witholding the one he needed, "that Son-of-a-bitch!" (yes, he actually said that)
It's reasurring to know that even HE thinks it's rigged.