Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:47:09 +0000, John Bokma wrote: > >> Ok, let me spell it out for you: If all your applications are web >> based, and the OS shouldn't matter, why do Linux distributions >> matter? It doesn't matter which one you use to run, for example, >> OpenOffice. Yet people pick a certain distribution. Why? Well, one >> reason is that people like to belong to a group. So even if it really >> doesn't matter which OS you are going to use to access a web >> application, or even which browser, people will pick a certain >> browser, and a certain OS, just because. > > Dude, do you think that Microsoft gives a rat's tail[1] for what a > handful of computer enthusiasts and geek programmers pick?
So you missed the point again. > They want > to control the business world, and believe me, corporations don't pick > the OS of their computer because they want to join a community, they > pick the OS that lets them run the applications that their business > needs to run. So basically you're saying that even if web based applications become the shit, everybody keeps running Microsoft? So I am right :-) > Operating-system independent browser-based applications threaten the > ability of Microsoft to tie that choice to Windows. Ah, sure, you really think that a business is going to run office applications on a web server? Are they already moving to Linux with OpenOffice (free as in speech?). > That is why MS > decided to bundle IE with Windows and (try to) kill off Netscape as a > competitor. So and when exactly do we see the web based office? -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list