On 6 Jan, zentara wrote:
>
> "Fred A. Miller" wrote:
>>
>> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-12/lw-12-vcontrol.html?a01-04
>
> A FUD campaign against Linux won't work, because Linux is a superior
> operating system. The more Microsoft tries to raise different issues,
> the more of their own weaknesses will be revealed.
>
> Anyways, most business desicions are not made on technical merit
> anymore.
> It is lobbying, expensive lunches, backroom payola, stock deals, etc,
> which
> get contracts nowadays. So you have got to figure that Microsoft
> will continue to dominate. Their representatives can make more
> campaign donations, dress fancier, give fancy seminars, and probably can
> afford
> investigators dig up dirt on the opposition.
>
> Also, you have to figure that with all the technical brainpower
> at their disposal, eventually they will get windows NT into a
> respectable OS. Of course you will need a minimum pentium MMX
> running at 400 MHz, with 128 Megs of 10 ns ram, and you will still
> be dependent on them.
>
> Whereas linux users will be able to have full control over their
> machines,
> require less powerful machines to get the same job done, and
> be far less expensive.
>
> Linux was never invented to take on Microsoft, it just so happened
> that alot of people are catching on to the cost-performance ratio
> benefits of linux. That is eroding the "MONOPOLY".
>
> The battle is in the schools. Whatever the schools can afford, the kids
> will
> learn, and take out in the business world.
> The recent decision by Mexico to use Redhat in their schools is an
> ominous sign for Microsoft.
> I would expect Microsoft to start a campaign to give away their os
> cheaply for school systems to use.
>
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Not to be too disagreeable but FUD campaigns using superior operating
systems as targets often work. Schools are fine but when "the kids"
get to silicon valley or wherever their paychecks are signed, the
realities will soon set in. Its an honest fact, that many of the facts
I learned in several years of college including 3 years of graduate
school were soon subsumed by "in your face" knowledge that is only
received when one gets to the floor of the business, or in my
case, scientific, community. What OS and platform do you think schools
use? How much impact do you think schools have when business ventures
demand a different set of values? Then its starve or be noble. Whats
your choice?
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Michael E. Perry
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