Microsoft's Losing European Battle 3352

Mathew P.

Well put. When is cola going to engage in some advocacy? I lurked here for a while before posting in June 2004, and I quickly realized it's mostly an insult MS and Windows group.

Here's an example of the depths of depravity to which some of these nutcases sink: they slander Bill Gates for giving away $billions, calling it money laundering. They lie and whine, calling Windows the MS tax, MS extortionists, claim people commit dissolution because their companies lay them off because they can't afford Windows license costs, etc. They label Windows Vista as XP SP3.

And much more utter stupidity.

You kind of have to feel sorry for anyone who would say those kinds of things.

There's nothing wrong with having issues. Ask Rex Ballard. heh...

Or me.

You sure?

Most Linux advocates.

A few reasons:

1) I've always been interested in alternative to MS operating systems (as long as they ran on a PC). In the past I've run DR-DOS, PC-DOS, OS-2, BeOS, and Linux.

Linux is interesting. It's so different from Windows, and so "open ended" that you can explore and tweak forever practically. I don't use it too often, because I'm busy building and maintaining Windows apps, but I have installed 8 or so distros in the past year and a half. I recently put Slackware 10.2 on my other system, and even added a generic 2.6.13 kernel to lilo (in addition to the 2.4.31 that came with it), created an initrd to use ext3 with the new kernel, installed some libraries from source, installed postgresql, got k3b up on it (that was painful), etc. None of it using package managers. Why? Just to learn basically. Something to do late at night (I don't sleep much).

2) Linux-Windows is a great topic to debate. It's philosophical, fast-moving, has pbuttionate adherents, isn't expensive (except for time) to indulge in, is easy to research, makes you think, keeps you informed, can be useful to your career, etc.

3) I like to get mad and argue and debate, and many cola nuts are argumentative types.

Except for a couple of posts, I don't see my posting-behavior as insulting. Retaliatory, maybe.

I try to not disparage someone who hasn't first disparaged me.

Welcome to the brawl...