Linked by Preston Liam Whels on Wed 16th Apr 2003 18:07 UTC
Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not.
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Hate to say it, pnghd, but I think you're dead wrong. All the "evil" Microsoft does has to be separated from the good they have done. In my book, Microsoft is more responsible for making computers what they are than anyone else.
While the real work has been done in universities, advanced government engineering facilities, and drunk Canadian hackers' bedrooms, Microsoft put computers in every house by making an OS that people understood better than anyone else that was affordable. Now, sure, we could say they're evil, but I still want my mom, dad and sister to use it, because they know it and it's still getting better.
One day this won't be true, but it boils down to this: they are a company, and they provide the best product for many. That's not evil, that's capitalism.
(please, don't anyone respond with all the monopoly and anti-competitive stuff, I know it already. I agree. Doesn't change what I've said though, in my opinion)