Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[joe at invalid.address]

John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> writes:

> "David Schwartz" <davids at webmaster.com> wrote:
> > 
> > "Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote in message 
> > news:a103l1tkejrc99s0385qjqqhm96d46dpc4 at 4ax.com...
> > 
> >> Part of their behavior really escape me.  The whole thing about
> >> browser wars confuses me.  Web browsers represent a zero billion
> >> dollar a year market.  Why would you risk anything to own it?
> > 
> >     It really isn't that hard to understand that web-based
> >     applications that work in any browser on any OS threaten
> >     to make it irrelevent what OS you're running.
> 
> And it's even easier to understand that your statement is nonsense.
> 
> It doesn't matter which Linux distribution you pick, all use the Linux 
> kernel. On all I can run OpenOffice, and get the same results. Yet people 
> seem to prefer one distribution over one other.

He was talking about the browser war, and gave a pretty good reason
why it was important. So you respond by pointing out that people
choose a linux distribution for personal (non-technical,
non-marketing) reasons. I think I missed the connection.

> > MS has a strong interest in making sure it's important
> > to be running on one of their OSes.
> 
> Maybe *they* do have a point :-).

Which is?

Joe
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