For some days I have been reading in this news group. What did I learn?
Microsoft does not do business in a decent and fair way. It has been
condemned for this. Some people believe that MS continues illegal
practices.
Windows is an OS that carries the past with it; it has never been
restructured in order to cope with the contemporary more complex
situation. This makes it vulnerable to attacks by all kinds of malware.
It is impossible now to rewrite Windows from zero. It is too big. And if
done the result would not be a new Windows, but something else. I
would welcome this other, new system and try it at once.
All this does not exactly tell me that Linux is a better OS, it tells me
really that Windows is *worse* than Linux.
Many discussions end in flame wars and name calling. These go on and on
making the news group a battleground for private wars between a select
and small group of persons, not really interesting or advocating one OS
or another.
Some cities, government institutions, corporations discard their
Microsoft OS on their networks and/or desktops and go over to a Linux
OS. This is interesting news, but what does it mean? From this news
group I learn that if may be very significant or meaningless. Thinking
about this I conclude that we just don't know. Suppose a few cities or
government departments go over to Linux, say a few hundred thousand
computers. If there are about 600.000.000 computers of which 90% uses
Microsoft's operating systems, all these "defections" not even amount to
a promille of Microsoft's user base. A mere fluctuation? Or a trend? A
ground swell?
Does Vista sell well or not? The truth is: we don't know and do not have
the means to know. Time only will tell.
Do all these discussions promote Linux? At first I found many of them
interesting until the flaming and name calling began, but after a few
days I must say most are utterly boring and not promoting either Linux
or Windows.
I wish you all well and hope that all these clever people that write in
this group will start discussions that show the qualities of Linux
instead of the failures of Windows or the vices of Microsoft.
Erik.
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