On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:05:58 -0700, High Plains Thumper wrote:
> Most noticeable is when posting Linux advocacy or countering a
> troll's FUD, is the immediate revengeful posting of my former
> home address, former phone numbers and former ISP, false
> references to homosexuality, racial slurs, false accusing others
> as my supposed nymshifts, every bit of humanly possible dirt
> imaginable.
>
> Flatfish accused Roy Schestowitz of gender transformation,
> referring to other advocates including myself of having
> homosexual relations with other advocates, ad nauseum.
>
> Those who post about Linux advocacy will be attacked.
While I don't condone those kinds of bullshit responses, you have to
realize that you are one of those people that rubs others the wrong way.
Roy is another.
There are plenty of Linux advocates, who post interesting and pro linux
stuff that don't get attacked. You know why? They stick to the truth.
Ghost in the machine is a good example. Chris Alstrom, when he was much
more of a reasonable advocate, also didn't get much push back. The problem
is that once you start down the road of telling lies to advocate, then the
attacks come and then you likewise feel the need to attack back and it
becomes a vicious cycle.
Likewise, 99.9% of my posts are very civil and don't insult people, yet
that doesn't stop Linux advocates from throwing all kinds of nastiness at
me, does it?
So don't pretend like you're a saint in this matter. you're not.
> OTOH, Microsoft artificially kept prices up on their operating
> system, even though development costs were well recouped.
First, Microsoft's price for OS's was in line with others who were selling
OS's. OS/2 cost about the same as Windows, for isntance and MacOS costs
about the same as well when you factor in the fact that all MacOS disks are
upgrades (ie, you can't buy a Mac that wasn't sold without a license
initially, and you can't legally run MacOS on non-apple hardware, therefore
each version of MacOS is implicitly licensed as an upgrade).
> Windows XP Home OEM retail is still around $90 US, same price as
> it was when it was first distributed. When they had eliminated
> the competition with their free bundling of the Office suite with
> OEM's, I saw the price immediately go up considerably above the
> competition's.
And why hasn't MacOS pricing gone down? Why hasn't the cost of a
commercial SuSE or Mandriva license gone down over the years?
Your argument doesn't seem to conform to reality of everyone else. Not
only that, but Microsoft has continued to upgarde XP over the years,
releasing a number of new versions (including 64 bit, Media Center, Tablet
PC, Service Packs (which were as much work as an entire new OS release,
really) as well. So this "recoup costs" argument is also kind of
pointless, since Microsoft is ALWAYS working on new versions.
Can you name a *SINGLE* OS that has come down in price over the years? I
sure can't.
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