Why not Linux?

[James Knott]

Gregory D Hough wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps because of the often illegal means he used to obtain that his
wealth.
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