Verily I say unto thee, that Dylnuge spake thusly:
> Not to mention that if you want to switch a Mac user, all
> your argument just died.
The thing is that the existence of the Mac platform is not much of a
threat to other platforms, whereas Windows certainly is ("embrace,
extend, and extinguish"). Therefore my personal focus would be to switch
Windows users, who represent a huge majority. I do not want the whole
world to switch to GNU/Linux, I just want to kill the very real threat
that Microsoft and Windows is to the industry, get back to a level
playing field, and have an environment where all platforms can co-exist
peacefully, without the threat of extinction at the hands of
corporations that behave like gangsters.
Of course open standards is a key part of that, something which
Microsoft despises (and Apple too, to a lesser extent), because closed
standards is one of the key weapons proprietary software vendors use to
lock-in customers and destroy the competition.
So when I talk of killing the Microsoft threat, what I really mean is
killing the threat of encumbered, proprietary software and closed
standards. It's just that Microsoft is the biggest threat, and therefore
should be a GNU/Linux advocate's primary focus for targeting switchers.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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