You missed some major ones: 1. Who wants to get locked with only one choice of software, one choice of OS? 2. Monopolies are bad in any industry, you end up with point 1. and they will gouge as much money out of you as they can. 3. How would you like it if a company you worked for put up an important website that you needed for work, but it was only accessible via IE5.5? Matt -- "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves." On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, SuSE Mail List wrote:

Hi all,

I am prepared to get a good burn from this :) I love playing DA...lol

This is what I hear in the Linux Windows conversation

1.)Microsoft products are a "common business" or "the" software solution provider in the United States (and other countries) and I don't like that so I am mad 2.)Microsoft makes a lot of money and it is too big and I don't like that so I am mad 3.)Microsoft product is imperfect and "promotes" that it "is" and I don't like it so I am mad 4.)Microsoft is to big and I don't like it so I am mad.... Note: (4.) on the issue of the size of MS revenues, profit, etc., the size of the revenue stream is kind of meaningless. Microsoft takes in billions but also spends billions. If MS made obscenely large profits (measured as a % of costs) then I might get excited but they don't.... It may look like they do but they don't, read the numbers, DO the MATH.

This next list is an ASSUMPTIONS of mine

1b.)I work in a corporation, business, small business, or on personal computer at home which uses the Microsoft product and it beaks down and I get mad thus I don't like MS. note: Hypothetically if Linux in one from or another were implemented on a scale the MS products currently are I "presume" that it would be exploited in a similar fashion, it's flaws, loopholes, drawbacks... 2b.)If the "Hypothetical" situation where "real" then the same could be said about company X distributing product X, X being Linux 3b.)The company or self bought Microsoft product X and uses it on the assumption that "it should be prefect". An old proverb says that "perfection is in the eye of the beholder", from MS prospective it's a beautiful thing, from our being "tainted' with the notion that it "is" perfect" but really isn't makes us mad thus I don't like it. 4b.) see #2b

As far as I am concerned there are a lot more important things to be "bitching" about... For example how many tons of garbage do YOU produce per year? How many people, including strangers, are you NICE to? When was the last time you did something nice for some one? REALLY PEOPLE, it is a piece of plastic, metal, and composites....

This is reality....I don't like it so I am MAD.

FLAME ON FOLKS

Aaron L. Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Akers" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] The Windows to Linux Conversion

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Hate to be pedantic but it's 'glisters', not 'glitters'. I had to look that up in the dictionary. What is the difference? They look the same to me.

It's a quote from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (II, vii)

'All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms infold. Had you been as wise as bold, Young in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been inscroll'd: Fare you well, your suit is cold.'

Sean

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From Tony Zafiropoulos to SuSE Mail List, Sean Akers, and suse-linux-e@suse...:

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, SuSE Mail List wrote:

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As far as I am concerned there are a lot more important things to be "bitching" about... For example how many tons of garbage do YOU produce per year? How many people, including strangers, are you NICE to? When was the last time you did something nice for some one? REALLY PEOPLE, it is a piece of plastic, metal, and composites.... Hey, people are just a chemical carbon combination. We're not bitching about the plastic and metal, it's the principle of freedom of choice that's talked about here. Who says we don't bitch about people producing too many garbage? We just don't do it on this list. Most of the people on this list ARE nice to other people, they answer questions of people they never heard about.

Above is your real agenda. But you forget that this is a SuSE mail list... why should these topics be discussed on this list???

Are you an environmental extremist???

As long as he is not a terrorist. :)

Tony

-- dieter