Story: Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Posted by: Smithy (Thursday 29 January 2004, 8:22 PM)
adebayo omo-dare asserts that : "one would say that indications of Microsoft's basic attitude with regards to the so called Developing Nations was clearly seen in South America, where they tried to stop the official introduction of Open Source platforms in government using the office of the US Ambassedor. "
There you go again making wild unsubstantiated allegations about the "Great Satan" Microsoft.
Microsoft has not, repeat has not used any US ambassador to "try and stop" open course in South America. Period!
Thatwould simply not make any sense.
Is Microsoft trying to educate SouthAmerican PCusers about the advantages of usingWindows instead of Linux? You bet!
Its called marketing.Nothing illegal or underhand about that.
That's what every corporation does if they want tosell anything. Get it?
And there are no little green men from Mars being used by Microsoft to brainwash the British into using Microsoft products either.
Its something called the free market. Ever heard of it?
When I first came to Britian, the BBC computer (based on the Acorn computer) and Sir Clive Sinclair's Sinclair Computer were the leading PC's in Britain.
Microsoft was nowhere to be found in those days.
Bill Gates did not hold a gun to the head of anybody to buy Microsoft software.
There was a plain old market shake out,and at the end of the shootout, Microsoft Windows was left as the dominant PC software.
There was no Juju, no hyptotism, no gun held at anyone's head, nothing!
Microsoft won the British PC market fair and square. Get used to it, pal!
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