By the way this is the book in question.. http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS This is the intro
> From the title of this paper you may have guessed that I am not very > impressed with the guys in Redmond. One might even say that my dislike for > Microsoft is a pet hate gone out of control in an almost quixotic fashion. > Why is this? > > Of course I have been accused of personal antipathy, of being jealous of > Bill Gates and his billions, and of being prejudiced against all things > Microsoft without any reason whatsoever. None of this is true. I have > nothing personal against Bill Gates. Why should I? I don't know the man, > I've never met him. I agree with those who say he might be the most > successful salesman in history. And I've always thought that even one > billion in almost any currency is more than I could reasonably spend. > > No. It's rather his business practices, and that of his company, that I am > opposed to, for a large and still growing number of reasons, most of which > are plain, verifiable facts. > This paper explains *why* Microsoft is bad for us. > Disclaimer > > The following represents my own personal point of view. It does not > necessarily represent the points of view of my employers, clients, > associates, friends, relatives, pets or houseplants. If they want a point of > view, they can go and grow their own, so there. If you read this document > and a tree falls on your house as a result of any inaccuracy on my part, I > shall not be held responsible. > > All registered trademarks mentioned in this text are the property of their > respective owners and are hereby acknowledged. > one more thing... as the Yardbirds once sang as well "Don't judge a book by its cover" FYI, I am using a windows box right now... but nothing i use is microsoft.... except Internet explorer.... (showed some problems in linux)... and other thing is we need to know the ways of the enemy to effectively beat it. Everytime I touch the window, i miss beryl... and yeah... everytime i play age of empires or try making a game/robot(at least simulate) using MS tools... ... i wish there were some for linux... there will be.. On 5/17/07, Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > wtf... do u mean to say Linux is communist? Microsoft does have good > technologies and probably some of the best minds... but so much is getting > wasted. They make false claims, participate in un-trade-friendly and > monopolistic practices(yeah, that sounds more like saying "comrade") i'm > not defending the book but essentially I was putting a "truth." > The effect of Microsoft is psychological, not technological. Stalling > science(and engineering) for decades is a crime... and Microsoft committed > that. We have a nice OS... or OSes... if Microsoft comes to the point of > slandering the open source community... we will get back.... > > Yep that's what Free Software Foundation is for: "Fight the Truth" not > Microsoft. > > :D > > On 5/17/07, Bipin Gautam < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > friends, > > we dont need to spread the word "HATE microsoft" to make us love > > OSS.... as we do or do we got to have a comparison ground to make us > > look better. I love to use technologies available in OFF as much as > > everyone out here in the list does but dont you think books as "why i > > hate microsoft" is completely biased and aims to influence the reader > > towards towards the writers opinion anyways? > > > > The point is hating microsoft isnt wrong... if its your personal > > opinion that's build up from personal feelings. Loving a biased > > opinion without personal judgement is WRONG. > > > > Thing i hate about influential ppl. in the international FOSS > > community is they try to teach "Ka" for "comred" instead of C for CAT. > > > > Linux "is" most of your e-religion, and I know..... i dont want to > > offensive or hurt any of my friends feelings over here.... but what my > > education has taught me is we should celebrate our culture but never > > follow it blindly.... as extreme superstition so be it in the real > > world or in the digital world. > > > > and this is for your call Prasanna: > > Softwares are like mathmatical algorithm, numbers.... > > A number cannot be patented. > > A number cannot be copyrighted. > > Do not bow to the threats as others have. > > Spread the word. > > Fight for truth. > > > > (o: > > > > -bipin > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
