I agree totaly if Micro$oft was playing fair…
They are totaly trying to monopolize the opperating system world. the way they are makeing so that the next version of windows has to be the ONLY OS on a hard drive, it will not function with partitions, so the dual boot days are over. hows that for “Freedom of choice”. you are free to buy either Microsoft, Micto$oft,microsoft… those are your choices in the future I hope everyone chooses well.
all you Ipod users out there are going to get the privalage of buying new drivers from Apple, because it is a “security risk” and Microsoft wont include the drivers natively…,
the new windows also still fragments files… makeing systems progressivly run slower… and raising the possibilitys of data loss.Right now you can run windows applications in WINE and the stuff never gets fragmented…
Linux is not just for servers…
Open source in general is a great idea, but it puts professionals out of work a lot more than you’d think. Sure, no serious business is going to take OpenOffice.org over Office even though the feature set is nearly identical, but there are other fields such as web serving that are easy to find a free identical alternative on the linux side.
well my buisness uses open office over office… I run a very successful buisness. The above statement is moot. Open Office is not made by a bunch of Code Kiddies either, it is made by Sun Microsystems.
without open source alot of people would not be able to develope anything, in lots of countries Micro$oft is WAY too expensive for the common person to buy…
Right now in Thailand there are 4 versions of windows XP, each version contains a few more features than the other… the Full version of windows is priced at over $400 american dollars… How is that for being fair… If you are american you can use winDoze for 75-150$
Microsoft is the reason ALOT of people hate america (another reason they hate america is over opinionated idiots like me;))
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I think my favorite Micro$oft burn is in some south american countries…
in the Window XP installer the people have the gender choice to choose:
None
Male and
Bitch.
it has been 4 years , and they still have not fixed this, very rude and wrong error. I wish Micro$oft would move to canada, they give americans a bad immage.
without open source there would be no compitition… It seems Unix , and Micro$oft are brothers in arms.
Look how SCO is trying hard to sue, because Linus trovold ripped of MINIX commands…
well Micro$oft DOS has ripped them off for years, they also pegged CP/M for alot of the functions and commands…
also:
The only problem here is, a lot of the applications being pumped out for linux in this field are emulating and not innovating. That’s what the ‘big evil money hungry corporations do’ is spend millions on R&D, and 6 months after they release their crown jewel, some sourceforge page pops up ripping the features and calling their version better
realy? then show me the microsoft or Unix version of this:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/
we would never see ANYthing like this from micro$oft without this compitition…I have seen thousands of screen shots of the windows Longhorn, and it looks almost Identical to XP.
Nor dose microsoft let you use a window manager, you are stuck modding the shell.(Not in longhorn, any attemts to tweak the shell is a secutity violation… if you want to skin your windows,or changeing certain Icons you get the privlage if buying microsoft plus)
IMHO ,
KDE is much better in alot of ways, mostly visual…it also totaly sucks in a few other ways. mostly installing an uninstalling stuff.
as far as it not being able to play games or do serious CG art, you have just not tried the right flavour of linux… here is what I run on most of my systems…
http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/
everything they claim is true…
the graphics drivers for my ATI card are jaw dropping.
XSI, MAYA, and 3DS all have special tweaks in this OS for even faster preformance.
the only reason I even have windows installed on my systems is for Zbrush…
most of my other tasks I can do in linux under WINE. The only reason I dont give them more support is because i had to pay for it… I am embarassed to say that I payed money for Linux LOL!
as far as Ripping off other peoples ideas,
Michel Angelo, Picaso, and Rembrant are just a bunch of ripp offs also…
the true artist is Umfoofoo, the prehistoric man who spit a bunch of berrys on a wall and smeared it around to make an image of a deer…
All other artist just imporved on this concept… all the real credit should go to Umfoofoo
all the rest of the so called artists ,are a bunch of fakes and rippoffs.
in all reality, I prefer Windows over Linux,
I am glad linux is around to give them compitition.
there would be no 64 bit windows yet if it where not for this compitition. 3 months after the release of the AMD 64 bit chips, there was a project to make all the drivers and kernels work with SUSE… later Redhat followed with fedora core, and later Mandrake made a 64 bit kernel build.
In linux I have 64 bit drivers for all my hardware… in windows 64 I have no WACOM drivers, No drivers for one of my CD roms,and no drivers for my joystick.
I wrote wacom an email, asking if I could beta test windows 64 drivers… they told me that they where not going to do any 64 bit drivers untill 6 months after the next windows is released
I hope an open source project beats them to it, and makes better improvements…
they are really not catering to the 64 bit consummer. I think a open source 64 bit driver should help them speed up the process, and might force them to make improvements. (improvements means hireing more programmers, and provides more jobs)
What realy puts people “Out of work” is haveing no compitition… only haveing 1 wordprocessor, 1 database, and 1 spreadsheet company.
Only haveing 1 opperateing system companie is bad for employment also…
If Linux is found to be Illegal THOUSANDS of redhat, mandrake, and SUSe people will not have a job anymore.
hundreds of people at IBM, and Sun Microsystems would have to go also.
I think it is funny as hell that the only big compitition to Micro$oft is a bunch of rag tagged coders out there, who do it just to piss of bill gates LMAO!
If a bunch of “non-professional” people can make something that rivals the richest companie in the world, there is something wrong here.
they do it without ripping off, or reverse engeneering anything. they do things totaly diffrent,
And it’s starting to work.
The only reason that Linux exists is because they do it for free… Microsoft can not absorb them,or put them out of buisness SHAGGING the justice system with all their money and lawyers. (they are sure trying hard to change that, soon it may be illegal to develope software as a hobbie, you will have to pay the microsoft tax for your compiler, and you will have to work for a government/Microsoft designated software firm.) Open source GNU right now is the “Untouchables”…
If they “want to” they can Sell things professionaly in linux… Look at X-chat and Star office, REDHAT, SUSE ,and MANDRAKE…
in those few companies I there are THOUSANDS of people.
Edit: (About the elite Micro$oft spelling)
thanks for the complement about me being Elite.
Witness my prefection.
LOL just Jokeing…
I would like to try Mandrake… Do you use an ATI 9800 Pro card? If so, do the drivers install easy?
I hear that mandrake is very nice to ATI people, are you running the comercial version? or are you useing the free ISO?
If you are running linux for anything you might want to give this a try
athene OS
http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/
it is not quite as mature as Mandrake, but makes a nice desktop OS.
Thanks for the fun Debate, Have a Nice day.
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