Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX. 
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"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"
Shame on those Linux developers for releasing code that they wrote in their spare time under the license of their choosing! They should instead have released it under a license that gives MS exclusive rights to the technology! Gee, if you're so worried about GPL contamination, WRITE YOUR OWN GODDAMN CODE.
"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."
This is not true. Commercial software companies will add as little functionality and fix as little as possible so that users still buy the next version. I mean they're in the business to make money, and not to write good software, right?
"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."
So explain why open source moves at a quicker pace than commercial software. In terms of ease of use, the gap between 1995-circa Linux and Windows 95 is much greater than current Linux versions and Windows XP.
And as far as kernel technology is concerned, Linux has always been ahead. Remember that Linux already had a network transparent GUI, memory protection and full multitasking, at a time when Windows users were hit by "general protection faults" if they tried running more than a handful of programs at a time on their 16-bit OS? Only recently MS managed to write an OS that doesn't crash for no reason (XP). Even though MS is playing catchup, Linux is not standing still. Kernel 2.6 is an amazing improvement.