Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[joe at invalid.address]

John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> writes:

> joe at invalid.address wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> web based applications that work with any browser make OS irrelevant
> -> not true, since for OpenOffice it doesn't matter which Linux
> distribution one runs (or even if it's Linux), yet people seem to
> make a point of which distribution they use.

A linux distribution isn't an OS, it's a distribution, so I'm not sure
what your point here is.

In fact, there are lots of Microsoft-centric web pages that don't
work well when accessed from a linux system. ActiveX, MS Java, etc.

> >> > 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?
> 
> That it *does* matter. It doesn't matter which brand makes your
> graphics card, since most stick close to the reference design of the
> GPU chip supplier, yet people take the brand in consideration when
> they buy.

I don't think that's true, at least not yet. I recently bought a
Compaq Presario, which came with XP installed. I wiped the disk and
installed Linux, only to find that the hardware would only work under
XP. So I then had to install network, video, sound etc cards to get it
working.

joe
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