I agree. I started out as an Apple II user, but gave up on Apple when the Mac came out with its closed architecture and lack of configurability. It was everything the Apple II wasn't, closed, safe and boring. Apple had a good thing going but spoiled it. Sorry for the bad pun (unintended). MSDOS gave me a new playground of openness and freedom, but somewhere along the line M$ started to believe like Apple does and took away options and configurability. Their close relationship with OEMs and licensing practises have made Windows much less fun than it used to be. It is all about control and leaving the user at their mercy. This is what made me switch to Linux which is like the old days. No licensing agreements, rules, DRM or closed architectures to worry about. The computer is mine once again to do with it as I please. Apple stands at the exact opposite of the spectrum with M$ somewhere in the middle, but increasingly closer to Apple's position, I am sorry to say. I was once a big M$ supporter, like many Linux users, but they let me down just as Apple did before that. It has to do with getting so big and out of touch with reality. I am not sure that either could win me back just because of their attitude which is a hard thing to change. Once the innocence is lost it is gone forever, I am afraid.
Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 3, 2008 11:40:45 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] M$ dumps its own stnadard and wants to control ODF? On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:05:33PM -0500, Drmgiver wrote: > "Instead of devloping they just have to muscle control and take over > making somethng they had nothing to do with their own. Scary." > It's what they have always done (i.e. Macintosh), why change now? > Do you mean the way MS took the market share from Mac in the 90's? I don't think they were using muscle tactics back then. Apple lost it all by themselves, by being overly arrogant. (They may lose what they have now in the same way--I see that in CA, there are issues about them working with AT&T to try to lock people in with the iPhone, as well as deliberately releasing code to brick unlocked phones.) MS gave the people what they wanted, including pre-emptive multi tasking, which Apple didn't have until OS X. Apple made bad business decisions, and basically gave it away. It was part of what gave MS its present power. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: Hi! You having fun? Angel: Sure. This is, uh... Cordelia: Your idea of hell. Angel: Actually, in hell you tend to know a lot of the people __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
