It is a cruel world, what can I say. The world is full of enough
contamination that we don't need more here. In the past week I have read
thirty similar comparisons, including that one. There was even a good one
that showed ten or more features that Microsoft claims to have invented, but
were stolen from Linux and OS/X.
The last place I expect to see one is in a help forum for Linux. I can get
them anytime I want. I come here to help and not be propagandized. This is
Linux board not a Windows promotion platform. It would have been fine had if
shown the features of Ubuntu (or any other distro) only.
As soon as Windows is mentioned it invites response and usually it causes
problems. The hatchets come out (mine included) and Microsoft's name gets
dragged through the mud (again). Feelings get hurt. Been there. Done that.
If we are to mature we need to get past any inferiority complex that we may
have and stop making comparisons. It only succeeds in reinforcing in the
minds of users that Windows measures up and it doesn't. I just finished
reading an article written by a former Microsoft employee that says that
while Windows 7 may stop the bleeding for now, the end game is unchanged.
The future of operating systems is Linux.
Mark Shuttleworth has a vested interest in getting users to switch. He has
invested lots of his own money in Ubuntu. I respect that, but make no
mistake, he expects to profit from it in the long run. Personally I don't
care about his timelines for this.
Linux is what it is. Take it or leave it. We don't need to be number one in
sales, just in user experience. Our strength is not in our numbers, but our
approach which is user and community based software freedom. Most people who
come to Linux get it. They see that we offer something radically different.
To put us in the same boat as Windows 7 is to do us a grave dissservice.
I respect that Scott and some of the rest of you use both Windows and Linux.
I do not. I am Microsoft free and proud of it. There is a dichotomy here.
The two operating systems are like night and day and should be kept in
separate boxes (and forums), IMO.
Roy
2009/11/1 loyal_barber <loyal_barber@
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> see below
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@
> Roy <linuxcanuck@
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> > And your point is...????
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> > <snip>
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> Ouch Roy that was harsh. I like you so please take this as intended.
> That was way harsh. Since this is a Newbies group I suggest we will
> always have the Linux vs. Windows type posts. Just let the next one go.
>
> Thanks,
> Loyal
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