On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:47, "Bohdan S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dont like how all these Linux users bag Windows SOOOO much..... If it > wasent for windows how many of us would own a computer right now?
You are making the assumption that Microsoft was the only group capable of making an affordable, usable OS. If Microsoft weren't around, we'd have something else, like OS/2, Amiga or BeOS. In some ways, these are _still_ better than Windows. Without Microsoft, we would probably have had a much more dynamic and competitive industry, as we had in the 1980s. A good way to see what MS has done to the industry is to read the U.S. v. Microsoft Findings of Fact document: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm If you want a summary, skip to the last section (titled "THE EFFECT ON CONSUMERS OF MICROSOFT'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE APPLICATIONS BARRIER TO ENTRY"). P.S. You only need one full stop to signify the end of a sentence. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers ... to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability." - George Bush Snr, in 'A World Transformed', 1998
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