Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13378

billwg schreef:

So moving the goal posts is your idea of "the original idea"? The term 'logical fallacy' does not ring any bells?

So you offer no counter arguments.

And the ones that *do* switch are not real businesses. That is the 'no true scotssman' fallacy.

So Boeing, Northrop Grumman, the US navy and Army, DaimlerChrysler, Mercedes Benz and the The US postal service to name but a few linux users at random, are just 'little fiefdoms'? You have weird ideas.

Are you suggesting the BlueGene (fastest computer on the face of the earth and an IBM product) runs Windows?

They do not support Linux anymore?

"Why Linux at IBM? Top 10 solution benefits" ftp:--ftp.software.ibm.com-linux-pdfs-LinuxTop10March2005Final-S32809.pdf

Switching software solutions takes time. And from the homepage of the munich city, the project is right on track. You'd have to be braindead to expect that it is no more than just using another web-browser.

So that's lie #2, in this post only.

Maybe, but it's one more high-profile client M$ lost.

Of course. But how many still run windblows after a year?

But 0.007 very high profile percent. They are developng a base for other german cities to use, and judging from their website, the iterest is high. You bet your butt all of europe i watching. The system had it's opening show at SYSTEMS-2005 conference. The reactions from other authorities and businesses was enthousiastical.

How many German, nay, European cities are there? That' is quite a chunk of business and a BIG DENT in M$ usual FUD.

GET THE FACTS!

Oh, yes. They look. And when they see linux runs faster, with less costs and problems, and actually implements the standards so programs are interoperable, the'll make the change too. If one sheep goes over the dam, the rest will follow, as they say here.

Wasn't OpenOffice trashed in Ohio lately for not sticking to the XML standard?

I do. You don't seem to understand. Look it up, boy.

And using that in a debate in lieu of any real arguments. That's an 'ad hominem' fallacy. I sugget you look it up, before you amke an even bigger fool of yourself.

Not at all. LOL. Yu argue by critisising a personal rait which has nothing to do with the ebate at hand. Still an ad hominem logical fallacy, boy.

Many if M$ wants to *keep* those users. People are becoming more computer-savvy than they were 25 years ago. The market is growing up and realizing there is better suff around than M$ can ever produce. They've been fooled long enough.

The rest of the world seems to think differently, and since 'your reasoning' depends on bald faced lies and misinformation, my reasoning is that your reasoning sucks big time.

M$ allready lot the server market, which it said would never happen, now it's on the right track to loose the desktop market, too.

And in those 25 years M$ has developed the biggest disasters in GUI-land. If they hadn't bought Aplle's graphical system, we'd still see icons falling though the windows, as they did in the bad old days of 3.1. I can sill hear the cries of indignation from my fellow mac-developers.

In your (wet) dreams, pal.

Ah, yes... They said the same thing at IBM in the 80's. Sweet dreams. They are loosing developers fast, and that is jut the first step. No developers, no new products. No new products, no more customers. People are not all as blind as you seem to be.

And now Munich has made the transition, more will follow. Lnux is cheaper, more stable, less malware infested, it scales better, runs on more hardware platforms, has a better API, fewer security alerts, and bugs are fixed a hell of a lot faster than M$ will ever manage.

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool mom." -- Captain Penny's law.