> Hello Damian
>
> Can you please define that last point of yours? What
> exactly do you mean by that. I thought of the opposite
> so far.
>
>
> Greetings
> Dimitris
well, all situations in life have at least two sides...
yes, of course most companies/people can be favoured
with Linux getting more popular. after all, this would
give it a lot more strength and it would surely show.
and this is what we all want here. it's best for the majority
of the people.
the problem i have with this idea is that i'm possitive
that the software world, much like many other money-making worlds,
are not a democracy. the choices are not made by listening to
the majority. people don't seem to matter much. only marketing.
this is what i feel when i read an article in a local magazine,
when they did an interview with Bill Gates and on the cover
of that magazine there was his face and in big white letters:
"We built the PC ecosystem" ( ecosystem? looks more like a food chain to me.
And the user is not exactly the shark here.. )
... this fact that the software market is ruled by a few,
huge corporations making several times more money than an
average country, lead me to a very simple idea. they are not
keeping that money under the pillow. they can be a very strong
influence in many ways, they can keep things the way they want it.
to put a very clear example, have you ever heard the rumor going around
about electric cars? that one about electric cars being still very rare
and expensive because of all the ward work it takes to get over
the oil companies' pressure?
this one is a real cutie, don't you think? if we keep messing
with our environment like we are today, mankind and the whole planet will
be in serious trouble in just a couple of centuries. Oh but the oil company's
president is not going to live 200 years so he doesn't care about that.
only making his money.
** and they would lose all that if suddenly that company is NOT
the absolute undisputable number one.. **
so when i said they have "billions of green reasons not to let that
happen" , what i meant was "billions of dollars to lose if that happens".
Damian
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