| [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 13-Aug-2002 12:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 ([JC]):
Bullshit! I know about all those shell replacements, and addons like Stardocks products! But they don't let you more the furniture, they just act as veils on TOP of your furniture, at the cost with app compatability. I've run all three (98 lite, object desktop, litestep), and was amazed at how elegantly they crashed my desktop several times. With litestep I couldn't even run some programs.
Now, if you did your homework, you would know what KDE is all about. In addition, you should know that certain distros, such as Mandrake and RedHat, just love to mix and match Gnome and KDE apps all over the place. Now if some of you pretending wisemen would try a consistent KDE desktop - then I think many of you would change your minds.
Enough about KDE - the point is that Linux has matured so much over the last few months that still holding on to the ol' "it's not mainstream, it's not easy" attitude is just a drag. You DO need to use the console from time to time, and the same goes for Windows (SoundBlaster commands in autoexec.bat anyone?), AmigaOS (lha is usually executed from shell, arexx, and... well()), BeOS... Why do you think they have a shell. And oh, just because they use commands does not make them hard. John Doe used Dos in the past.
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