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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Being a developer on both Windows and *NIX, I can see the advantages of both platforms. More often than not, I am going to use Windows for my front end and *NIX as my backend. Simply because that is where their strengths are.
I don't agree with the a lot of what MS does and find some satisfaction when open source wins out when a company or goverments switches to it. It will eventually cause MS to change their thinking somewhat and get in line with open standards. On the other hand *NIX zealots need to learn Windows users will be put off by "MS is the devil don't use it". The majority of end users are not developers and just want to surf the web, send e-mail and pictures of Johnny to their loved ones. I realize they can do that on *NIX but most users don't want to have to ./configure ... make install... now how do I run it?
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