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Microsoft delivers 'the Facts' about Linux
Orethrius:
I have a hard time believing that MS zealots would buy that horse hockey. What I fail to understand is why Microsoft sees threats behind every corner, and believes it must bash its competition into submission rather than develop viable alternatives. This kind of paranoid mudslinging is only drawing people away from MS, for good reason. My advice to MS zealots: Linux users manage to get away with a console that's named BASH, and is subsequently battle-hardened from people using that name as their lone offense against Linux, so get some better arguments than "it's not cost-effective" before you EVER enter into an argument over OS viability.
[ June 14, 2004: Message edited by: Midnight Candidate ]
PseudoRandomDragon:
Oh trust me, MS zelots will say anything to credit MS and bash Linux. They say WinXP SP2 firewall is the best, even though it is not out yet. They say Linux has less driver support. They say a lot of stupid shit.
mobrien_12:
How about this fact:
You use Linux and OSS, you won't have to worry about the BSA storming the doors of your business, and giving you the choice of "upgrading" all your MS software or going through a lawsuit that would cost more than the software (even if you won).
Mandrake:
Microsoft is right... Windows DOES have better driver support. I tried running UT2004 and other new games in SuSE Linux 9 with my Radeon video card... it's a damn nightmare to get working. Windows, you run an EXE file to install the latest driver, two minutes later your playing the game. Too bad the rest of Windows is pretty fucked :)
skyman8081:
This obviously MUST be EVIL.
because and EVIL company like MS CAN'T correct misconceptions about their own product.
and they CERTAINLY can't defend themselves against a verbal slaying by the makers of a competing product. OH NOSE MS is just too EVIL to do that, they MUST be spreading FUD!
I see a lot of warrantless OS bashing on all sides. ok, one side should not have complete control of the floor. One-sided arguments are not cool.
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