An open letter to Steve Ballmer: [...]
So we closed the deal, we got the order, we qualified the software, we got the machine shipped. In other word, we did our job. I understand the machine are being delivered right now. And then, today, we hear from the customer a totally different story: "we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward." Wow! I'm impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their mind like this? Its pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone. How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my place, they give it various names, I'm sure you know them. Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning? [...] The full letter is at http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/ This is how MS got the 90+% market share. They paid the PC manufacturers to install MS Windows in their products all the while a better OS from IBM was available. And, remember how they drove Netscape out of business? They are still doing this dirty tactic of "dumping" their products in the marketplace in order to drive out the competition. Then they turn around and say "we are the market leader; so why use any other product? Oh, and by the way, send $3M for the next set of upgrades for those 17,000 machines you have." And, the sad part is that there are __better__ alternatives. But the MS' FUD machine is so effective, no one even tries the alternative OSes, some of which are completely free (such as Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/; Sabayon Linux http://www.sabayonlinux.org/; Debian http://www.us.debian.org/; ...) ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
