Re: Linux for Kids
From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/11/05
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:55:50 +0100
chris writes:
> Wrong! Under the "Sale of Goods Act" in this country, Windows is not "fit
> for purpose".
Explain the purposes for which it is sold but unfit, and why.
> There are a number of major companies and institutions here
> that are pursuing Bill and his corporation for the damage to trade and
> insecurities that his crapware has caused.
Anyone can file a lawsuit.
> Don't be silly.
I'm never silly.
> All the "invention" that MS proudly proclaims is just theft.
No more so than any other company.
Linux is a blatant (and inferior) copy of UNIX. That doesn't seem to
bother you.
> I've had algorithms and methods stolen by MS, as have any number of
> other software innovators.
Why didn't you sue?
> This is one of the risks of the GPL - anyone
> can steal your work and claim it as their own.
If they are using it legally under the GPL, they didn't steal it. If
they are using it illegally, you can sue them and make lots of money.
> Perhaps you should consider what he actually did.
I am.
> He wanted a
> "minix-alike", but without the expense. That's what he achieved. There
> was no theft of intellectual property.
I seem to recall that SCO felt differently.
> It might look similar, but it doesn't rely on actually stolen code.
Opinions differ on that. There's also the question of patents.
> MS haven't invented any original code, but have persisting in buying and
> stealing from real innovators.
No more so than any other company. I don't know of any company that has
built anything entirely from scratch.
> Business users are leaving Windoze in droves.
No, they are not. Windows is still just as dominant as it has always
been.
> They're fed up with the
> insecurities and unreliabilities of MS products. The next generation
> certainly won't be using anything MS-based.
Windows has been in use for 20 years; there's a good chance that
something very much like it will still be in use 20 years from now,
especially since the inertia of the computing industry is far greater
now than it was two decades ago.
> Don't waste my time.
You don't have any benchmarks, and I was just calling your bluff.
> So if you prefer Windows or Mac, go away and play with your toys, and leave
> this newsgroup to the rest of us.
Oh, but I like talking about those toys here.
> Any "serious" applications are available for Linux, often in better
> form than their Windows equivalent.
Like Photoshop?
> The mass migration has started, so
> you'd better spend all your cash with your pal Bill to try to keep his
> corporation afloat. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the
> world stops wasting their time and money on MS crapware, leaving the USA as
> their own source of revenue.
Yeah, right after they all switch to OS/2.
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