| [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 0 on 12-Aug-2002 04:25 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 ([JC]):
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>>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.
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It shows that Linux annoys you. The point is that Linux might not be good for 90% of all people, but it sure is for more than 1 or 2 percent. I think you are a bit confused about linux, as many others. Give the linux distros a try and you will see. Once the installation process of *good* distros are improved, things will change. If you can imagine Gentoo Linux with a graphical installer such as RH/Mandrake and Suse has, then the world will be slightly upgraded :) As about Linus? Diety, right. Like Linux users are even slightly as fanatic as the Amiga Inc. followers.
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>>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.
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This is bullshit! KDE 3.0.2 has now come so far, that I would measure it easier than Windows ever was. It has networking, filesharing, great printing and much more, all accessable with a click of a button. It is just a bliss to use, and merge Liquid into the system, and you have one of the prettiest desktops around. For driver support? Are you kidding me? Perhaps Windows(XP) has it easy on all kinds of wierd WINDOWS APPROVED OEM products, like laptops and wierd desktops - but as far as device support is consearned, Linux is in my opinion extremely well placed. You do not have to install new drivers, get driver disks and download, no no, the drivers come with the OS. Ok, you might have to compile the kernel if you do not have all the modules built, but if a OEM would sell a prebuilt linux system, you would see that quite more than you think would use the OS.
Think about it, after installing Windows, you use hours of downloading new drivers. On Linux, all the drivers come with the system, even for those odd ISA cards of the past.
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>>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.
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Lucky you, perhaps you should ask in this office how many times the employees' puters have gone west - then ask which computer has stayed without a crash, and you'll come on this one, the Linux one. Windows crashes all the time and use alot of our time. You may say what you want about the GPL, but it has made it easier for students to get jobs, as they can learn application and programming without having to pay heaps of cash to powerhungry corporations.
see you
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>>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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This is an Amiga forum, not an Amiga Inc. forum. It was made for the Amiga community, and that community is in no way responsible for who feeds who in the corporate world. Open your eyes. |
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