To follow up on my promise to Marcel to dig up some URLs that have reasons not to use Linux, here are some from a web site devoted to embedded Linux. The links below are really responses to "attacks" on Linux coming from Microsoft. They include links to the original Microsoft document to which they're responding. In the first case, you will need to have a Microsoft "partner" account to access the original, but the author excerpts the statements to which he's responding. Some of the "attacks" are specific to the embedded market, but most could be made against Linux in general. As some of the authors point out, a number of the things Microsoft complains about in Linux (and Open Source in general) are things the Open Source world think of as strengths. So, in a number of cases, what you're going to be facing are differences in mind-set. These, of course, are the hardest kinds of objections to overcome, because they require the other person to start thinking in a new way. That's not nearly as easy to deal with as are technical arguments.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3774543383.html http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5175565222.html http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5112682288.html Mark Post
