Michael Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No offense if you're among those that I'm about to insult, but one would > have to be pretty dumb to have not known that Microsoft was funding that, > as well as every other "research" showing Windows to be faster, more > secure, or cheaper.
None taken :-P It's a dirty game, all the same. Marketing strategies for the gullible. I must reckon, however, that among these `research studies' that were conducted there seems to be no technical evidence supporting their claims. Sure, there might be tables, graphs and charts (hell, even code) showing how the PSOS is taking the Olympic motto of `Fortius, Citrius, Altius' against the FOSS, but all the same that can be easily spooked. Consider a study of comparing Linux 2.6 to Linux 2.4 and the BSDs; there's always a chance of error, but for the most part the bases are covered, and via constant improvements among both parties and the free availability of freedoms, it is always an open question, and also a source of further study. I now believe that the strength of an operating system lies not in how stronger, or faster, or (artificially) smarter than the average bear, but in how well it supports `manipulexity' and `whipuptitude', to borrow Larry Wall's words. Systems belonging to the *ix tradition, from ITS to Linux and the BSDs, all have this. Hell, even the Macs are now coming of age. Only when people outside this tradition realize their folly and consequently modify their systems to support this, might I even `consider' believing. -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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