On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:31 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > <snip> > > > It's getting time to start war - if M$ ain't going to play > > nicely, then there are going to be 100% more > > virus/trojan/macro attacks - at least that seems to be the > > trend... > > </snip> > > No need to start a war, Stephen. The war is on. By accusing IBM > and the whole Open Source Community of stealing, SCO (read : > M$) insulted every decent *netizen* in the world, including > me. > > As you may have noticed, I never participated in the general > Microsoft-bashing. The reason : I never used windows. My only > experience with it stems from my kids, who bought PC's with > the thingy preinstalled. I helped them wipe the dirt and get > their PCs operational. (Afterwards they used the Windows-CD's > for rifle-practice). > > At my work, the so-called *IT-department* knows next to nothing > about IT, so they insist that I shall have something called > *Windows 2000 Professional* on my office-PC. I tried to use it > for a few days, but I don't think the taxpayers pay me for > sitting on my ass rebooting PC's, staring on pop-up adds and > blue screens of death (I happen to be a surgeon). Accordingly, > I threw a Knoppix-CD into the cupholder, did some configuring > and never touched the harddisk thereafter. > > But that is history. From now on you can count me in the army. > I'll use everything at my disposal to miscredit, sabotage and > boycott Microsoft. I have great admiration for the United > States of America, but it is beyond me how this great nation > can tolerate that gang of crooks ? > > And - if Microsoft wants to augment the virus-pressure, should > we feel pity for those poor windows-users ? - I think no : by > purchasing from criminals they asked for it. > > May the source be with us. > > Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, well put and I agree. The USA has tolerated many gangs of crooks for a period of time. History shows the outcome of people such as "The Robber Barons" but those people don't go away, they just grow a new appendage. Money talks and Bulls**t walks. There is a large following of linux in the US and every day I see more and more in trade mags like E-week and such, talking about linux this and linux that. I believe that we are winning some of the battles and can with effort win the war. I do not believe that M$ will go away or be totally destroyed. They will be reduced ( in their minds) to playing on a more level playing field and eventually have to deal with commodity OS's. I liken it to the field of thermodynamics. All the math and most of the developed equations of thermo are free and open to anyone interested in learning, as is the chemistry of phase shift chemicals and others such as that. Expansion of gases and compression of gases and the calculations needed for work performed are all out there. Even so, companies have taken this 'free' information and made a business out of "heating and air conditioning". Computer code can work just as well that way as evidenced by Linux. It is only a matter of time before the "Companies" figure out more elegant ways to make it a paying proposition and yet the code remains free. My $.02. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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