Hi :) I think disdain is possibly closer than hatred. I think bioth are quite far away from the reality though. I think it's simply that people would rather develop tools that are more robust and less susceptible to malware and slow-downs.
I think once you start using OpenSource tools you begin to realise that MS seem to have deliberately built-in vulnerabilities and their slow-downs. FOSS doesn't seem to suffer anything like as much, although a bit of "system rot" is inevitable in almost any system. I'm just installing Win7 on a handfull of machines and am able to make a couple of tweaks that prevent their "Virtual Memory" from getting so heavily fragmented. In previous versions of their OS i have found it significantly reduces the slow-downs if you can do this early on. On Win7 it takes an extra couple of clicks but it's still really easy. I always wonder why the default is to set it to fragment as quickly as possible. It's only with Win7 that their de-fragger tool can defrag system files such as the Virtual Memory (err that is Swap to Gnu&Linux geeks lol). Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> >To: Amit Choudhary <contact.amit.choudhary.in...@gmail.com>; >users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 29 July 2013, 20:30 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 > > >I certainly hope the primary motive for FOSS such as LO is not a disdain for >MS. I personally don't care how much money MS makes. I hope the LO >developers are motivated by a desire to produce a great product that can be >used worldwide. Hatred usually doesn't provide a very effective motive for >productive action. > >Virgil > >-----Original Message----- >From: Amit Choudhary >Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 10:47 AM >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3 > >On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Amit Choudhary ><contact.amit.choudhary.in...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Andrew Brown <andre...@icon.co.za> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Amit >>> >>> I understand where you are coming from, and the good news is, in your >>> favour, that MS in both it's O/S and office suite are losing market share >>> in a big way. Here's an article from Ubuntu founder and my countryman >>> Mark Shuttelworth on his take on MS and Ubuntu. I like his statement that >>> the no.1 bug in Linux has now been fixed/closed, in that MS no longer >>> dominates majority market share. >> >> >> But the numbers don't lie. I checked MS revenues and profits on >> finance.yahoo.com and it doesn't look like MS is losing market share. MS >> losing share might be an illusion. >> > >Period Ending Jun 30, 2012 >Jun 30, 2011 Jun 30, 2010 > >Net Income Applicable To Common Shares $16,978,000 $23,150,000 > $18,760,000 (All numbers in thousands) > >Regards, >Amit > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
