Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"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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"Microsoft has a fixation that if it is developed by others, then obviously, it is inferior. The same complex behind Windows NT."
Rather ironic on two counts, at least as I (possibly mis-) understand what you're saying:
1. NT was jointly developed by MS and IBM, marketed by MS as NT/W2K/XP, and by IBM as OS/2 and OS/2 Warp.
2. I've had two crashes in 2 1/2 years running W2K. That's a very refreshing change from Win98, which is probably responsible for more Linux downloads and sales than anything the Free Software Foundation has done. (Not at all intended as any slight to the worthiness of the FSF's efforts.)
BTW, I've got Win2K, Win98 and FreeBSD on my machine, have run QNX, and intend to install Gentoo Linux within a week or two. Each of these OSs, except Win98, is useful to me for accomplishing certain tasks.