Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 07, 2007 08:09 AM
Yep, that's Microsoft. I don't blame this university one bit for switching. "You *will* lock-in to us, and if you don't like it, screw you," says Microsoft to its users. The entire company is permeated with this arrogance. They just want to own and control everybody with a "my way or the highway" attitude.
Heck they take that attitude even with K-12 institutions! They seem to love threatening audits to "persuade" decision-makers to upgrade to whatever the latest Windows/MSOffice version is. Disgusting....
Unfortunately, Apple is just as, if not more, arrogant than, Microsoft, so you "Cult of Mac" members are owned, too. Apple is just too damned proprietary and always has been. The only reason you don't see Apple threatening its users (yet) in like form to Microsoft is because of its tiny market share which it's desperately hoping to grow.
I use GNU/Linux. I use OpenBSD. I use OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and MPlayer. I use Free Software whenever possible. It is great. And I will *not* use anything from Microsoft except for their mice, which actually are pretty good and do follow publically- and freely-available standards.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 07, 2007 08:09 AMHeck they take that attitude even with K-12 institutions! They seem to love threatening audits to "persuade" decision-makers to upgrade to whatever the latest Windows/MSOffice version is. Disgusting....
Unfortunately, Apple is just as, if not more, arrogant than, Microsoft, so you "Cult of Mac" members are owned, too. Apple is just too damned proprietary and always has been. The only reason you don't see Apple threatening its users (yet) in like form to Microsoft is because of its tiny market share which it's desperately hoping to grow.
I use GNU/Linux. I use OpenBSD. I use OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and MPlayer. I use Free Software whenever possible. It is great. And I will *not* use anything from Microsoft except for their mice, which actually are pretty good and do follow publically- and freely-available standards.
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