Microsoft has a toolchain that's geared toward encouraging behavior that helps their felonious monopoly practices. If people like that toolchain, and think it's easier to work with than abiding by standards that make the Internet suitable for use by everyone, then that's what they will do.
Due to the nature of my personal situation, I'm pretty-much trapped into working for a shop like that, and have little or no power to change anything here.
However, in a customer-service training session I attended yesterday, which was about discounting your customers, I described my experience of being "discounted" by 3 ISP's because I use Linux rather than Windows or the Mac. I said that I blew off 2 of them, and managed to get the third one (SBC) to put me in touch with staff who helped me set the service up the way I wanted to. I made sure that everyone in my class heard every word, too, and that I was finally successful in getting an ISP on which I could confidently use Linux, rather than Windows. This in a shop where "Windows religion" is the prevailing behavior.
It's the best I can do, but every little bit helps.
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Posted by: ccchips on July 02, 2004 10:22 PMDue to the nature of my personal situation, I'm pretty-much trapped into working for a shop like that, and have little or no power to change anything here.
However, in a customer-service training session I attended yesterday, which was about discounting your customers, I described my experience of being "discounted" by 3 ISP's because I use Linux rather than Windows or the Mac. I said that I blew off 2 of them, and managed to get the third one (SBC) to put me in touch with staff who helped me set the service up the way I wanted to. I made sure that everyone in my class heard every word, too, and that I was finally successful in getting an ISP on which I could confidently use Linux, rather than Windows. This in a shop where "Windows religion" is the prevailing behavior.
It's the best I can do, but every little bit helps.
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