Derek J. Balling wrote:
If it suits your needs, absolutely. More power to ya. To some extent, I'm with you on the "not
Microsoft" thing, using a Mac for my desktop environment. It's what I use because it's what
works for me, and frankly I've made "getting a mac desktop" a condition of employment at
a couple places in the past. (Admittedly, some of those places were much easier-going about it than
others).
Because, again, that's what works best for me. But I'm not going to sit here and say "Microsoft is evil
because they have this piece of software that everyone else uses and I can't" for something like IE, nor
am I going to fault the IE users for causing hell and damnation to the web with their damned-fool browser
that sucks, or anything like that. "Respecting" someone else's decision doesn't mean agreeing with
it, nor does it mean "doing something different so that you can also do something".
... and then on Mar 3, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
Microsoft can be considered "evil" because most users buy off-the-shelf
systems.
MS uses its bloated mass to force its software onto these units. Then it
uses
the numbers to force "partners" to write for Windows only. If you think
not then
why does MS even prevent software from the previous version of Windows from
running. Things like the inefficient .Net to circumvent Java is an example.
If that's not enough they are continuous in their efforts to patent or
buy anything
that might be a threat to them so no one else can use it because they
can't stand
up to honest competition. They take ideas like the 3D desktop Linux was
way ahead
on and through a large ad budget open source doesn't have make it look
to the
masses that they invented it.
Not that people should not be able to use MS if they want-but the
methods MS uses
to make sure they do I consider at the very least evil.
Or-I just don't like them.
L
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