Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Oct 2009 12:51 UTC
A couple of years ago, a professor at my university had a very interesting thought exchange with the class I was in. We were a small group, and I knew most of them, they were my friends. Anyway, we had a talk about language purism - not an unimportant subject if you study English in The Netherlands.
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A good analogy and a decent opinion piece. I like osx its a great product but i could care less about apples hardware or their business practices in general. I think apple has the opposite problem of microsoft, apple has no confidence in a great product (osx) microsoft has too much confidence (arrogance)in their products.
Microsoft has a large user base. Microsoft has the largest pool of commercial applications. Microsoft has a stong position in the market. And of course, there is a lack of competition. I'm sure that if someone cames up with a better desktop os, MS will feel challenged. But that's not the case with neither os x nor linux.
Getting a bsd system and ruining it's strongest points and throwing on top of it a handicapped file system and a shiny UI does not make an os better.
I'm not saying that Windows is very good and I'm not an MS fan. But right now, we don't have a better choice for desktops and for workstations. For server, we can use eiher linux or BSD. But for desktops we are stuck with windows for good.
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2005-10-11
A good analogy and a decent opinion piece. I like osx its a great product but i could care less about apples hardware or their business practices in general. I think apple has the opposite problem of microsoft, apple has no confidence in a great product (osx) microsoft has too much confidence (arrogance)in their products. Also Price does make a huge difference. System 76 sells systems with linux pre-installed and offer support but they are a priced a little too high so i buy a pc (with windows) erase windows and install linux myself because i save hundreds of dollars in some cases.
Posts here have me thinking....I can NOT understand how people have been brainwashed into supporting corporations (no matter what they do) Even threatening violence against others who say something they dislike about a product their favored company produces.