____/ p5000011 on Wednesday 25 July 2007 03:24 : \____
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:46:42 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> Linux performs well on low-end hardware, though.
>>
>> hmmm... the OS that nobody wants runs "well" on the hardware that
>> nobody wants.
>
> Such a blatant lie.
Yes, from a troll.
> Now vista is an OS that many thought they wanted only to find it
> doesn't run many of their apps, support many of their peripherals and
> requires expensive HW. Incompatible bloat sums up vista.
>
> Linux + OSS gets updated continously (no 5 year wait), offers more and
> more features, better performance / stability / security and runs on
> more and more HW from embedded systems to the fastest super computers
> in the world.
>
> Windows survives due to lock in by a company proven to have abused its
> monopoly position.
The abuse is working /against/ it at present, so it seems to have retracted
this strategy. It became 'gentler', but it's too late. Developers flock from
Windows to Linux (as shown by a recent survey) and all major OEMs begin to
offer Linux PREINSTALLED.
Microsoft has resorted to squeezing money from poor people in the East and a
few easy targets (e.g. Linspire) in the rival market. When the shopkeeper no
longer open the register, the bully just shoots some knee caps. Microsoft is,
as the OpenOffice.org team said, now "desperate". It looks ahead and it sees
only the opportunity to squeeze money while customers and and developers walk
away.
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