blog.linuxtoday.com— While many have derided Microsoft's patent scare tactics as a desperate attempt to get more customers to flee Linux in general, Redmond's true goal might be something else entirely.
May 16, 2007View in Crawl 4
still there are more and more people using linux even where they can afford the windows licenses. go back a couple of years and we had nothing like the ubuntu craze that is going on now. linux was for a few elite(ist) hackers back then. now even anonymous consumer products like the BT home hub have linux installed without the user even knowing it in most cases. sure MS would love all those devices to be running MS 2007 Edition Embedded Ultimate or whatever but even the companies who make those devices don't want to be paying the license fees.
Dell is in a pretty desperate state at the moment. They are losing market share at an alarming rate to the likes of HP and others, and they seem to be willing to try anything to stay up there. Blaming Vista for their bad fortune is laughable considering no other OEM are having any problems shifting Vista machines, plus they have been losing share for a while now, long before Vista shipped. Offering Linux as an alternative OS is unlikely to have much (if any) impact on sales, but it's worth trying I suppose. you just never know.
Godwin's law? Who said anything about Bush?But I agree, Microsoft aren't Nazis. Microsoft isn't racist, Microsoft doesn't put people in concentration camps (well... maybe some MS-based offices I've seen... ). What Microsoft does is use their monopoly stranglehold on the entire tech industry to unfairly maintain their dominant position. They are literally planning an option for a 100% Microsoft-run *life* for people. They don't seem to mind using any means available to them; whether its dumping products onto the market through Windows, or threatening legal action based on completely unproven FUD. If that isn't illegal, it should be! Microsoft didn't succeed because of quality, or consumer choice. It succeeded because of dirty business that started way back when they first duped IBM to get a stranglehold on the PC market.Are they Nazis? No. They're white collar crooks, and they need to be regulated if they're going to continue attacking other businesses.
dankoozyMay 17, 2007
still there are more and more people using linux even where they can afford the windows licenses. go back a couple of years and we had nothing like the ubuntu craze that is going on now. linux was for a few elite(ist) hackers back then. now even anonymous consumer products like the BT home hub have linux installed without the user even knowing it in most cases. sure MS would love all those devices to be running MS 2007 Edition Embedded Ultimate or whatever but even the companies who make those devices don't want to be paying the license fees.
darcyMay 18, 2007
Dell is in a pretty desperate state at the moment. They are losing market share at an alarming rate to the likes of HP and others, and they seem to be willing to try anything to stay up there. Blaming Vista for their bad fortune is laughable considering no other OEM are having any problems shifting Vista machines, plus they have been losing share for a while now, long before Vista shipped. Offering Linux as an alternative OS is unlikely to have much (if any) impact on sales, but it's worth trying I suppose. you just never know.
franksandsMay 18, 2007
7of7, you keep using this word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
obkenobiMay 18, 2007
Godwin's law? Who said anything about Bush?But I agree, Microsoft aren't Nazis. Microsoft isn't racist, Microsoft doesn't put people in concentration camps (well... maybe some MS-based offices I've seen... ). What Microsoft does is use their monopoly stranglehold on the entire tech industry to unfairly maintain their dominant position. They are literally planning an option for a 100% Microsoft-run *life* for people. They don't seem to mind using any means available to them; whether its dumping products onto the market through Windows, or threatening legal action based on completely unproven FUD. If that isn't illegal, it should be! Microsoft didn't succeed because of quality, or consumer choice. It succeeded because of dirty business that started way back when they first duped IBM to get a stranglehold on the PC market.Are they Nazis? No. They're white collar crooks, and they need to be regulated if they're going to continue attacking other businesses.
Closed AccountMay 18, 2007
franksands, princess bride quote.... good one :)
wiseweaselMay 18, 2007
Hope you've got goats to spare for the GNU gods... : P j/k Linux and OpenOffice are the obvious answers for business use; their success is inevitable.
excessiveMay 18, 2007
Microsoft is trying to take over the planet.Discard or Allow?