One of the common mistakes that draws people into that kind of pointless
debate is equating "Linux" with all Open Source Software and equating MS
with all closed source or proprietary software.
There used to be very many excellent closed source tools on the market.
Now there are not but a few left. Many of these are still excellent, but
among these excellent ones none are from the major antagonist in the IT
sector.
The few that are left don't have the lobbying and marketing budgets to be
heard above the noise out of Redmond. Download a year's worth of
headllines and do a frequency count of company names. You'll see a trend.
Then spot check some articles about each company to check for substance,
you'll see a trend the inverse of the first.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Andrew Brown wrote:
I didn't mean that everyone who uses linux is a zealot. I do my own backups
to a linux server. But "linux zealot" does cover some of the attitudes that
you meet, on this list and elsewhere. There are plenty of people whose
attitude to any problem is that linux or OSS is the solution. This is
silly, wrong and aggravating; and if it is silly and wrong of me to be
aggravated by it, I'm sorry.
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