On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:10:36PM -0400, Jesse Trucks spake thusly:
> I find it rather sad and quite unprofessional to make these types of
> negative and prejudicial statements about a platform.

Modular software (not having your calendar unseparable from your
email), least priv and other security practices, etc. are all to be
expected from a platform. And they don't provide these things. I would
think it more unprofessional to sugar coat the inadequacies of the
platform so as not to appear overly harsh. That kind of thing only
hurts clients/customers/users.

> product and company bashing is in horrid taste, often rather
> inaccurate, and paints a picture of non-technical people who use the
> products (often not by their choice) as uncivilized neanderthals who
> don't deserve access to technology.

It is more a matter of the non-technical people not being qualified to
make such decisions thus the decisions are made badly.

> Microsoft creates some of the world's most widely used and popular
> software ever.

This says nothing about the quality of their software or whether the
above criticism is deserved.

-- 
Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org

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