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Massachusetts set to switch off Microsoft
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Good point skyman8081.
Another point that the GNU bum club fail to see is that if three companies all had significant market share and their products were all proprietary all of their file formats would be open since they'd all want to make it as easy as possible for someone to switch to their product.
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How do you know?
And such a scenario will NEVER EVER happen.
Heck, it's more likely that free software does take over the market (which is very unlikely) before that scenario occurs, IMO.
And which would you prefer?
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I believe that if it wasn't for Microsoft we wouldn't have the blind hate for all things CLO$
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Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---How do you know?
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Good point but I suppose I'll never know.
Think about it for a second, there are three companies, each have their own office suit, now each company wants to make it as easy as possible for people to choose their product, if their program can read their competitor's file it makes it much easier, if their format can be read by other non-competing programs then it encourages other developers to write software compatable with their program. Adobe wouldn't have made shuch a sucess of Acrobat if they hadn't made their format open, MS have only been able to keep their office formats closed and still be a sucess because they already have the main matket share.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---And such a scenario will NEVER EVER happen.
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I can't predict the future, no one can so it's pointless to argue about this, but I'd make the same prediction.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Heck, it's more likely that free software does take over the market (which is very unlikely) before that scenario occurs, IMO.
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Well this probably won't happen either but I also agree only because Linux has a higher share than Mac OS and there is no third competitor.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---And which would you prefer?
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I don't know, free software sounds good but I'm not convinced it'll be good quality, I'd rather have good proprietry software rather than cheap and nasty free shit, which is why I've chosen Opera over Firefox.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I doubt it.
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If Microsoft weren't in power I bet you no one would really care about open vs closed source. When was the last time anyone gave a shit about whether a car company released the blue prints for their latest car? Has anyone really been discouraged from buying a TV just because the evil company hasn't given them the schematics? Anyway this debate is pointless since we're talking about a hyporthectical situation that doesn't exist.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Microsoft doesn't come into the equation, at least for me.
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Oh yes it does, there's your bank and all the other businesses you rely on that use MS product, not to mention the rest of the economy you also depend on. :p
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---It's about right and wrong.
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That depends on you point of view, so far the only company to cause any harm by means of proprietary software is Microsoft, for this reason I'm anit-MS but not anti-proprietary software. I do encourage sharing and I don't take the moral high ground an accuse anyone who chooses not to share of being evil.
worker201:
I thought you two argument whores left your baggage in the Linux zone.
Aloone_Jonez:
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worker201:
http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9566
starting at about the 15th post.
The way you two go at it makes it impossible for anyone else to contribute, and accomplishes nothing. I really really really do want to know what problems Skyman has with XFree86 - he hasn't told me via IM yet. So don't destroy this thread with your shouting matches.
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