| [Rant] Microsoft extend their monopolistic behaviours (again) | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 11-Aug-2002 13:33 GMT by Cyberwlf | 56 comments
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Microsoft have cracked down on retailers trying to sell alternate OS's when they sign a contract to sell Windoze. (This theoretically effecting people selling Amithlon pre-installed, or the likes). Essentially saying... :
(from slashdot.org) "Some Sys Admin sent in an email that he got from Dell which basically says Microsoft will no longer allow Dell to sell PCs without an operating system. " - But if you think this was only Dell, the wording seems to effect all retailers, read article for more information: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208.
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| Posted by [JC] on 11-Aug-2002 22:31 GMT | In reply to Comment 6 (3seas):
You're one of those of whom I was on about, it seems. I am neither pro-MS or anti-MS (hell, if I was pro-MS, I'd own a legal copy of all of thier software and probably be broke by now :) but some of the claims made against them are, quite frankly, ludicrous.
Linux annoys me. It is not the be-all and end-all of operating systems, and to be honest, in the desktop market, it's not even a start of competition for Windows for 90% of people. People seem to think of Linus as some sort of diety, when in fact he's just someone whose uni project happened to draw a lot of interest (the fact that it started as a uni project shows in many areas of its architecture). What even more annoys me is he now thinks he is the world's number one authority on code, and what he says is taken as gospel.
Sure, there's a lot Linux can do that Windows can't, but then belive it or not (and i'm sure many Linux fanatics will foam at the mouth upon reading this) there's a lot Windows has to offer that Linux doesn't even touch upon - such as user friendliness, and driver support.
Then, there's other OS alternatives that don't centre around a "I work for free, so must you" licence (Yes, I hate the GPL, live with it), such as FreeBSD. I'm actually very interested in FreeBSD, mainly for server/network orientated things - Windows is still my desktop OS of choice for many reasons, and I rarely experience any of the problems that most Linux/Amiga users seem to quote with much frequency.
Anyway, this is an Amiga forum. Bashing MS right now seems more like biting the hand that feeds (I'm actually surprised MS didn't wholesale buy any useful tech Amiga had to offer long ago, just to get it off the market) |
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