On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Chris McQuistion<[email protected]> wrote: > To be honest, blind Microsoft hatred
But what about Microsoft hatred based on more than a decade of being screwed over by them? Can I hate them because I've been forced to use and support their products when I didn't really want to? Can I hate them for making me support their IE6 monstrosity all these years? Can I hate them because not even IE8 supports DOM Level 2 Events as standardized by W3C way back in 2000? (Holding back the jQuery coders is not cool.) Can I hate them for all the shady business practices they've been called out for by the EU? > Is Linux a better option for many, many things, over Microsoft? Sure, but > that doesn't mean that Linux users should become zealots who take sick > pleasure out of bashing Microsoft (a software vendor that they don't even > use) at every possible opportunity. So then.. as long as I am forced to make my code IE6-happy, I can freely bash them? So as long as I have to keep a WinXP VM around for IE6, and another one for IE7, and another one for IE8, can I hate them for costing me some 16GB of lost hard drive space? > This is the same issue that I get frustrated at Apple about, too. Apple's > entire marketing campaign for the past 5+ years has been centered on > pointing out the (real/imagined) problems of their chief competitor, rather > than actually talk about the advantages of their product. Mac OS X has > advantages over Microsoft. Linux has advantages over Microsoft. Why not > talk about the real advantages of your platform, rather than beat up on the > other guy? Context. My koolaid is really good, but compared to what? My shiny new i7 cpu is really fast, but compared to what? All advertising does product comparisons, not just Apple. Most all modern e-commerce sites have product comparison tools right there ready to use. Site owners are encouraging us to compare products! Oh, the horror! The ideal solution for me would be a world without any advertising. Let me know when it's ready so I can move there. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
