[clue] Linux vs. Windows

[Mike Bean]

I don't think anyone can honestly argue that you need to respect and/or love
the company, I really got the sense that people were making the standard
"technology is a tool" argument.  You can use a wrench to fix something or
to break somebody's head open, but, at the risk of paraphrasing;   It's a
waste of energy to hate the wrench because of it.

I can sympathize with both ends of the argument actually.  Most of me is
fairly rational and wholly buys into that argument, however, there's a good
portion of me that HATES for purely irrational reasons and enjoys said hate.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Philipp Giddings <
webmaster at continentalbook.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 6/5/2011 2:52 PM, Raymond DeRoo wrote:
> > Louis--
> >
> >>        How much are we allowed to bash Windows in this list? Where is
> the line drawn between expressing our feelings and just being disrespectful
> to Microsoft drawn? I hear Windows 8 is in the final stages of development.
> > I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, so let me put this forward.
> >
> > Today I had a *very* frustrating day trying to talk a novice computer
> user thought downloading a .bin file. As it turns out the user has VLC
> installed and both Internet Explorer and Firefox kept insisting that the
> file be opened with VLC, no option appeared to allow for just downloading
> the file. In frustration I found webfetch.exe which is supposed to be
> somewhat like wget. After attempting to use webfetch and having the contents
> of the file dumped to STDOUT causing the CMD window to stop responding (
> wasn't even able to close it ) thus requiring a reboot of Windows ( version
> 7 ). I just gave up.
> >
> > That being said, I would not normally post such a message here,
> regardless of how frustrated I became, as I would not care to read such a
> message that was just another venting. Beyond that however, just to hear
> someone bash/bad mouth and OS because *they* don't like it, to me is
> unacceptable. I run windows in a VM for one application for which there is
> no Linux/OS X counterpart. It's a tool, I use whatever tools I need to do
> the job I'm requested to do. Do I like Windows no? Do I necessarily like
> Microsoft? Not really. But my kids and myself both own XBox's... What I feel
> it is important to remember that Microsoft meets the needs of many people
> today, and further it has been the driving force ( perhaps due to dislike or
> even hatred ) in the Open Source community as well. Microsoft got to where
> they are for a reason,
> anti-competitive practices buying or stealing others ideas (software and
> cobbling them in to their system) No respect here!
> Although I have to support this these machines with MS on them does not
> mean I respect the company.
>
>
>
>
>
> >   and as such some respect should be afforded to them for that.
> >
> > But hey, those are just *my* views. However I would unsubscribe this list
> if there where as many OS bashing posts as there have been "Things for Sale"
> posts. ;)
> >
> > .r
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