Why not Linux?

[Gregory D Hough]

Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:29 -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> 
> 
>>While legally/morally questionable tactics have a real
>>(major?) role to play in the domination of the
>>industry by one player, there are other factors.
>>Another "joke" from times gone by was "Nobody ever
>>gets fired for choosing IBM". Point was, if an IT
>>professional picked a solution from say Burroughs over
>>IBM, and things went bad, the chances of getting fired
>>were much higher than picking an IBM solution. 
> 
> 
> I just don't want to be the poor SOB responsible for installing,
> maintaining, patching, de-virus, de-spyware...
> 
> 
>>You can punish individuals for breaking the law, and
>>the thought of Bill Gates being REQUIRED to wear an
>>orange jumpsuit has a certain appeal. As for
>>corporations, the best you can hope to do is force
>>them to reform, this can be done by breaking them up
>>and/or  other legal actions, such as forced sale of
>>assets. Now, I don't know of any ideal solution for
>>Microsoft, but here are some ideas: 
>>
>>- Make the source code to all Microsoft products open
>>source under a BSD or GPL licence.
>>- Require Microsoft OSs become a seperate company from
>>the other parts.
>>
> 
> I don't believe Microsoft will ever be forced by Government to 
> change since to many they are a 'rags to riches' (sort of) story.
> Government intervention will be seen as excessive state control which
> many will take offense to. The best we can hope for is a co-ordinated
> effort to match them in every market to take away their 'oxygen' as
> their managers refer to it and drive margins down to the point they are
> unable to be profitable. Quite frankly its good to have a large window$
> installed base. It will be a huge segment needing an upgrade in the
> future.
> RickT
Why must y'all continuously slam the world's greatest philanthropist in 
his finest hour?

greg
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