Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source "The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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because they think they can do better
by Aesiamun on Fri 20th Dec 2002 13:13 UTC

and just why is it impossible for someone to do something BETTER than microsoft?

I don't understand where the concept of Microsoft = "the best ever and ever will be" came from. I have certainly tried better things than windows and office.