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Just like my last statement Microsoft is in the business for one purpose, and that is to make money. There is no money in opening their source, or opening their standards, because it leaves options open to the customer. I may not agree with some of their practices, but I do understand them.

Microsoft called GPL a virus because all that it does is take jobs away from people that could have their time better spent programming for a company that sells software instead of working for McDonalds waiting for the next job to come along in a job epidemic like we see now. That is why Microsoft called it a virus years ago, and now it is comming to look like they aren't going to be wrong.

Also as a side not I have a couple things to bitch about while I am on the topic. How many people are getting sick and tired of seeing the cutsey "M$" all over the place. We all know Microsoft is in the business for money you don't have to be so dimwitted in trying to say you dislike Microsoft. Come up with better ways write an article, create a "Better" OS, but anyway that you do it just stop your whining.

Also stop all the freakin bashing of Microsoft it just comes of as envy of Bill Gates. We all know he came to the market with a simple OS 20 years ago that anymore could put together. But here is the thing, Bill Gates wasn't a great programmer or anything, but he is probably one of the greatest businessmen you are likely to encounter, he was a better businessman, with out a doubt, than Steve Jobs or the "Great" Linus T. Because he was able to sell his OS to the right companies and didn't want to control everything right down to the hardware like Jobs did. In addition I don't know of anybody that wouldn't trade spaces with the guy even for as little as an hour. So stop b***hing about the OS all you guys that are old enough to have been around back when MS DOS was introduced should have made your own OS and sold it to IBM.

Last statement I promiss: This next statement might come as a surprise, but if you really think about it and not dismiss it as soon as you read it you might see the GPL in a different light.

Open Source = Communism
Closed Source = Capitalism

Now lets think about this, inorder to have communism you everybody in the community has to work together to make it work. Communism is derived from community. Everybody is working on the same OSS project as a community, so you really have to agree that it is communism. I don't think I have to explain how Closed Source is Capitalism, because basically if you sell something you are contributing to capitalism. Now we all know why communism doesn't work because the majority of the people only want to do as little work as possible inorder to complete a goal, with the minor exception of a few. And I know the big thing about OSS is that people use it because they can look at the source code and fix it, but really how many people do you know really look at the source code or fix it -- I don't know any. That is because the majority of the people are following the rule of doing as little as possible to get by. Now on the other hand if you are paying a select few to create a product they are going to be more apt to develop a product and if there are problems with it they are going to need to fix it else no body will buy the software. So capitalism forces software to being better while communism forces software to move at a slower pace, because people don't want to put the time in to do things right.

Sorry about the rant I just had a lot to get off my chest. Tell me what you think I would be itnerested in hearing your comments. And before you go off and start saying I am obviously a Microsoft Lover, I am going to admit it strait up "I AM". I have tried Linux and FreeBSD, but they just don't measure up to Microsoft, I am sorry but that is the truth no matter how it is spun.

Sincerely,
Nick