08.26
So I was bored at lunchtime and thought I’d have a go at making one of those shoutbox things – makes a nice change from the usual e-commerce stuff.
Anyway here it is for the interested!
Also was this good ranty comment by Ted, which I think deserves a notice as it nails several points so I am going to repost it here as it deserves to be seen!
There’s no such thing as a fair comparison between Windows and Linux from the FOSS crowd. No fact shall remain untwisted, no semantic loophole left unused.
When it comes to features; Windows only has a browser, media player and simple utilities. Linux has Office suites, mail servers, web servers, IDEs and DVDs worth of applications.
However, when it’s bug count, Windows suddenly also includes Office, Exchange, Visual Studio, two instances of SQL Server, IIS and Photoshop. Linux is just a kernel.
Add a feature to Linux? Best feature ever, can’t live without it.
Add a feature to Windows? Bloat! Copied from Apple! Anti-trust!Any feature not in Windows? Why isn’t this feature in?
Any feature not in Linux? You didn’t need it anyway!Windows Aero? Resource hungry, useless eye-candy.
Compiz? Absolute must-have! Spinning cubes!(For those that say Compiz/Ruby was first or is better, Google “Vista wobbly windows WinHec 2003″. Note how the windows don’t tear when moved, unlike Compiz!)
Benchmarks from established and trusted sources, with reproducible methodology that show Windows is better – shills, FUD, lies, MS paid for results, corrupt.
Benchmark from random blog with questionable (if any) methodology showing Linux is better – holy gospel truth.Windows bluescreens several times a day.
Kernel panics do not exist.Any Windows-only program = unoriginal, buggy, useless rubbish.
Linux programs – Original, innovative, not in fact, clones of successful Windows apps.Copying interface changes from Windows apps into the OSS clones is OK, even though they’re much maligned in the Windows version… I’m looking at you, OpenOffice. If they’re so crap, why clone them?
It’s OK to infringe copyrights of music and films, but don’t dare violate the GPL. It’s copyright, you know.
The double standards exhibited are staggering.
What about drivers?
The old “Windows has no drivers” (they never heard of the HCL obviously) and yet drivers are available from the vendor (as it should be)
Whereas Linux has drivers for ~everything~, because the vendors can’t be arsed to support the platform, and when they do the community Demands Teh Source, kvetches and bitches at the company when upstream breaks compatability, etc..
pure ownage!
I think there is a lot of truth to that rant and I use Linux myself. One of the main problems I have with MS is that they are a multi-billion dollar company with despicable business ethics. I spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen since I am a programmer by trade.
Whenever I sit down at a machine running an MS OS, I get a yucky, dirty feeling. I can’t help thinking of all the crap that goes into their OS. That’s just me, okay.
“despicable business ethics”
compared to other companies, they aren’t that bad
There are companies that pollute
There are companies that poison the milk
There are companies with sweat shops
There are companies that hide that their product is harmful
There are companies that help out terrorist
There are companies with real monopolies.
zombiechan is actually right.
Microsoft could have been worse. It isn’t. That’s coming from someone who has an account on anti-Microsoft forums.
There are companies that pollute < Microsoft has been shaping up its environmental image
There are companies that poison the milk < Microsoft doesn't produce milk for consumer use, but remember 2008?
There are companies with sweat shops < I hear Microsoft has a sweatshop for its peripherals (keyboards, mouse, et cetera) in China
There are companies that hide that their product is harmful < Microsoft doesn't
There are companies that help out terrorist < Microsoft owns a share of the family-owned bin Laden construction company, but that has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda
There are companies with real monopolies < Microsoft != Monopoly
See?