Story: Microsoft's licence to kill

Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 25 March 2005, 11:12 AM)

All this anti-Microsoft stuff is, in reality, the politics of envy. MS make excellent products and just about everyone buys them. That tells you something about the end-user market and its decision on this issue. Let's face it, if open source software was so good, given that it is cheaper (even free in some cases), people (and business in particular) would use it instead. After all, there are plenty of crap office "suites" to bolt on to you inferior Linux OS if you want to, cheaper than the much better MS offerings. But they don't. Ever stopped to wonder why?

Actually, you're wrong. Most microsoft products (ive never come across one that isnt) are buggy, and you'd be surprised how many people dont buy them, the only reason they have is that they're shipped with new PCs. If microsoft were open about the format used for saving files, no-one would even want the microsoft products, because while in the past they may have been the best there, these days they arent. Open source projects would instanlty be more popuplar if the average user knew about them, and that's not likely to happen. Take firefox for example, its userbase is climbing because people find it better, but because so few know about it, the growth is slower than anyone would want. It even has better features for distribution across a business network, so why aren't they implementing it? I think I just told you...

The reason you find linux inferior is years of growing up getting used to windows. Linux is a far superior OS which can be cutsomised to be easier to use, is infinitely more powerful and takes little learning. It would eb much more popular if GNU started paying for adverts on tv, but lets face it they dont have the funds, and with microsofts adverts, theres little point of having an advert of a company youve never heard of. People need to know about the alternatives, and if the EU manage to (as they are trying) to make MS ship longhorn with firefox, then that popularity will increase. Oh yeah, due to longhorns trusted computing compliance it wont run, because open source isnt allowed, and you need to buy a licence from ms. So there we go, ms eliminates competition and open source for its next OS in one fell swoop. Sounds like theyre worried.