Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> The following Dr. Dobbs Journal article points out the
> hypocrisy in Microsoft's stand on Linux. On the first
> hand in court battles, Microsoft puts Linux on a
> pedestal saying that it is the biggest competitive and
> innovative threat in the market, but on the other hand
> it puts up a "Linux Myths" page in it's website
> pooh-poohing these very claims to it's customers.
>
Hi sandip,
my very personal opinion is that with the current state of expertise
required to install linux and to identify all your hardware to it, it is
not for non-programmers, at least not yet.
so linux has to go a long way before somebody's mom or somebody's wife
would feel inclined to use it as effortlessly as windows, not to speak
of somebody's tiny tots.
i guess that by choosing a (currently) dummy competitor like linux
against the omnipresent mighty windoze, M$ is just trying to fill a gap
for its developers and assosiates who might have become quite complacent
in absence of any competition.
that might explain the duality on M$'s opinions about linux.
regards.
-vulcan
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