Why not Linux?

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Sun Sep 3 23:51:15 UTC 2006


On 3-Sep-06, at 7:46 PM, James Knott wrote:

> 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.
That seems to be the norm, consider much of the Canadian, and US  
wealth was created out of the days when alcohol was illegal.
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