The Glory of Choice
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| For a Linux / BSD devotee like myself, visiting Distrowatch is like being
| the proverbial kid in a candy store. There are so many variants of Linux to
| discover and each has its own particular emphasis and individual strengths.
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| In contrast, Microsoft is rather like Ford Motor Cars circa 1920. They
| would say of the Model T car, their first big hit, "You can have it any
| colour you like, so long as it's black"; this worked fine up until
| General Motors offered customers a variety of colours. Microsoft has
| problems with diversity: Vista appears to come in flavours ranging
| from vanilla to vanilla.
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http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=102
Vista editions, by the way, are nothing to do with choice. They are
limitations. They are fences on the way to a complete system (Ultimate) and
Starter Edition goes as far as restricting the maximal number of processes
to 3, in order to milk some more money.
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