Dude, if this place ran on slashcode I'd mod you +1 insightful. Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Greg Donald <gdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Chris > McQuistion<cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: >> To be honest, blind Microsoft hatred > > But what about Microsoft hatred based on more than a decade of being > screwed over by them? > > Can I hate them because I've been forced to use and support their > products when I didn't really want to? > > Can I hate them for making me support their IE6 monstrosity all > these years? > > Can I hate them because not even IE8 supports DOM Level 2 Events as > standardized by W3C way back in 2000? (Holding back the jQuery coders > is not cool.) > > Can I hate them for all the shady business practices they've been > called out for by the EU? > >> Is Linux a better option for many, many things, over Microsoft? >> Sure, but >> that doesn't mean that Linux users should become zealots who take >> sick >> pleasure out of bashing Microsoft (a software vendor that they >> don't even >> use) at every possible opportunity. > > So then.. as long as I am forced to make my code IE6-happy, I can > freely bash them? > > So as long as I have to keep a WinXP VM around for IE6, and another > one for IE7, and another one for IE8, can I hate them for costing me > some 16GB of lost hard drive space? > >> This is the same issue that I get frustrated at Apple about, too. >> Apple's >> entire marketing campaign for the past 5+ years has been centered on >> pointing out the (real/imagined) problems of their chief >> competitor, rather >> than actually talk about the advantages of their product. Mac OS X >> has >> advantages over Microsoft. Linux has advantages over Microsoft. >> Why not >> talk about the real advantages of your platform, rather than beat >> up on the >> other guy? > > Context. My koolaid is really good, but compared to what? My shiny > new i7 cpu is really fast, but compared to what? > > All advertising does product comparisons, not just Apple. Most all > modern e-commerce sites have product comparison tools right there > ready to use. Site owners are encouraging us to compare products! > Oh, the horror! > > The ideal solution for me would be a world without any advertising. > Let me know when it's ready so I can move there. > > > -- > Greg Donald > http://destiney.com/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
