Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 12, 2002 01:09 AM
> And once linux making it big in the US will have the same > social equivelance as the day when mercedes became more > valuable than cadillac.
You are saying it yourself: "Once Linux making it big ..." Linux already is big here in Europe, lots and lots of companies, corporations and institutions use it. And most companies I have to do with refuse to use Windows XP out of fear of being spied on. And with the new licensing scheme, lots of companies are now defecting to Linux or other alternatives. There are companies here which have completely banned Microsoft from their server rooms and now even desktops. Same is happening in Asia by the way. Only in the USA you are still discussing "once Linux will be big ..." I assume Microsoft is too powerful in the US ? And the argument about common standards is nonsense, there are plenty of standards in Linux (POSIX, to name one), far more than in Windows. Staying with WinXP because you fear not to have enough standards is complete nonsense and not very logic - it is Microsoft that violates any possible standard (HTML, for example). If you want a lot of standards - well, that's the best reason *NOT* to stay with your Microsoft OS.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 12, 2002 01:09 AM> social equivelance as the day when mercedes became more
> valuable than cadillac.
You are saying it yourself: "Once Linux making it big ..." Linux already is big here in Europe, lots and lots of companies, corporations and institutions use it. And most companies I have to do with refuse to use Windows XP out of fear of being spied on. And with the new licensing scheme, lots of companies are now defecting to Linux or other alternatives. There are companies here which have completely banned Microsoft from their server rooms and now even desktops. Same is happening in Asia by the way. Only in the USA you are still discussing "once Linux will be big ..." I assume Microsoft is too powerful in the US ? And the argument about common standards is nonsense, there are plenty of standards in Linux (POSIX, to name one), far more than in Windows. Staying with WinXP because you fear not to have enough standards is complete nonsense and not very logic - it is Microsoft that violates any possible standard (HTML, for example). If you want a lot of standards - well, that's the best reason *NOT* to stay with your Microsoft OS.
cheers.
Anthony.
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