On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:23:12PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey spake thusly: > MS has some products that are best in class (particularly AD, and I also > love exchange), and some that are pure garbage. > > Google has some products that are best in class (I personally love google > code and google earth), and some that are pure garbage. > > And Apple is the same. And Dell. And Adobe. And every one of these major > companies.
One of the companies mentioned above is a convicted monopolist in the US with massive anti-trust fines (over $2B in total, largest ever) levied in the EU who you are abetting whenever you use their products even if you simply copy but don't pay for the software (network effects). > Sorry for the short rant; I feel it's really important to always explicitly > address platform bigotry, even at the casual mention, done correctly as it > was above. ;-) I feel it is really important to explicitly address the oh-so-politically-correct "I'll always use the best tool for the job regardless of the consequences" meme which is popular in some circles. There are basis on which bigotry is unnacceptable. Race, religion, etc. There are also basis on which it is perfectly acceptable. Obeying the law (anti-trust) is one specific example of a basis on which discrimination is perfectly valid. Or virtue, more generally speaking, such as torpedoing an ISO standard process. I'm not a big fan of the sort of ends-justifies-the-means thinking demonstrated in your post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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