On Tuesday August 10 2004 12:43 pm, 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. 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.
It's the sad truth, but never-the-less the truth. A LOT of IT managers are just plain "chicken," and sprout feathers every day. Sooner or later, they're going to use the same old excuse that, "it's 'Bloze - what can I do." And someone way up in the company is going to say, "Replace him with someone who knows Linux." Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."