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Hypothetical Question about MS

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Bazoukas:
Here os the premise. Read it and then read the two question below.
 
Lets just say,.....lets just dare to say.....that MS finaly gets down and builds an OS that rivals in security and performance the Unix/Linux OSs.
  Viruses fear Windows, hackers are scratching their heads in disbelief because they dont realy know how to hack Servers running windows, and the thing runs like a race horse.
  Spyware is a thing of the past as activation key is. Price to buy MS products drops down severly (dirt cheap) and ohhhh yes WIndows can recognize formats from the X family.

  And when they find something wrong with their products, they act with extreme speed and with results that realy solve the problem.
 
1)  With all that said IF windows was an open source too, would you use  MS the way you use Unix or Linux?

2) WIth all that said if windows was still a closed source, would you use MS the way you use Unix or Linux?

lazygamer:
Excellent question!

1)Hell yeah!
2)Hell yeah!

MS would take away our .50BMG ammo stocks and replace them with paintballs if they did that! As it stands now, Wind0ze sucking in so many ways is the only damn thing Linux has to fight it and defeat it. If they take away all the reasons, the Linux veterans would only still be at it out of contempt for Microsoft and corporations.

Linux movement would only have "look at MS's past record", "With Bill and friends at the helm, how can you trust them?" and "The l33t und3rgr0und h4x0rs can always produce stuff to rival that of those corporations".

The proof is in the pudding(a wind0ze that rocks the house), and MS doing this would mean a serious shift in alignment and attitude. So maybe they go from chaotic evil to lawful evil?  ;)

Well I've been thinking all along(not long after  I got here) that if MS wants to win, all they have to do is take away reasons to spout to n00bs/wind0ze fans why their OS sucks.

I'd like to see our Linux priests convert windows fans by spouting anti-corporate or MS past history stuff at them. It's hard enough to unbrainwash them as it is!

Now why the fuck this is not on Bill's mind is beyond me. Chances are it will never happen, who knows maybe Billy thought of it already. I guess it just goes against Bill's ego and large evil oppressive empire mentality. I mean in a way it would be "If you can't beat em, join em". That would mean MS loses metaphorically(although wins BIG in the marketplace), which is a no-no.

voidmain:
1) No.  It's still brain dead windows.
2) No.  It's still brain dead windows.

And I don't believe I would even be interested in seeing all that VB source code.

Chooco:
1. YES!
2. YES!

lazygamer:
To make Wind0ze like this, the source code would have to be awesome. It would no longer be brain dead Wind0ze. If these hypothetical statements were to count as 100% true, then Wind0ze would have to be vastly overhauled.

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