On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Andy Sy wrote: .. > Correct. Who would've thought the day would come huh? Pretty shocking, > actually. MS have clearly taken the Linux threat seriously and > responded admirably. Windows users have Linux to thank for the > improvements in their OS, no two ways about it imo.
Actually it's great. People out there deriding Windows and pushing Linux with the avidity of zealots probably don't know how *good* Microsoft products have become, in general. It's easy to trash what you don't know or don't care to learn. That said, M$ is still crap-full of explots and bugs, but these are generally client-side issues (dumbing down everything to make things easy.. makes things insecure). But of course I'm glad Linux is around; I seriously doubt M$ would have shaped up this fast if they didn't feel the threat. And yes M$ is abusive of its monopoly position -- they have to, to justify their astronomical P/E ratio. But to simply with a broad brush tar their products as crappy is incorrect. The point is that, people who just deride Windows and make useless comments like "your box will blow up since you use Windows" simply don't know what they're talking about. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
