Re: To be M$ free....

Mike McCarty wrote:
This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM
that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about
being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than
Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged.

Er, when wasn't it ackowledged? You responded that they're "stuck" with
Windows. I offered a possible alternative out of ignorance. I never said
that Windows wasn't better than the alternatives because I flat out don't
know. I just pointed out that even though Operating Systems live in a binary
world we're not just limited to 2 options, Windows and Linux.

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