Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 9:30 am, LRivas@oxiquim.cl wrote:
Ballmer and Taylor are really sick, and have none knowledge about the open source or linux philosophy, seeing linux as a rival who is trying to beat them... poor guys
With all due respect, I think it's quite the opposite. I think they know very, very well about opensource and the Linux philosophy....and that's why they speak so very badly about it...they know this is the only thing in the world right now that can have an impact on their revenue.
IS HAVING AN IMPACT ON THEIR REVENUE. A mention of switching to Linux can lead to big discounts, though they are paying through slightly less enlarged noses.
Guys in their positions NEED to know everything they can about their competition so that they can "crush" it. It's all just negative marketing....an attempt to get the fence-sitters from jumping over to Linux. If I didn't know that much about Linux (and I really don't) and my job depended on hundreds of people working as efficiently as possible, I would surely go with MS. If, or when, something goes fubar, I can always tell my CIO "hey, it's Microsoft...what else can I do?" These statements and stories are enough to get someone to stay where they are.
No one ever gets fired for buying Microsoft (used to be IBM and that eventually changed), crying wolf is all they have left. Imagine a CIO who has never heard of Linux, MS is making sure he gets clued up and finds out more, so we should be pleased they are spending untold millions advertising Linux. I know many who thought Linux was light-weight until they saw those adverts. My advice which MS seems to have taken on board -- when you are drowning, shout and splash like mad rather than do nothing. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====