Why Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose

[der.hans]

Am 10. Nov, 2001 schwätzte Carl Parrish so:

> Micro$oft is trying to control the world of computing (and if they keep 
> diversifying I'll just end that at "the world"). Linux is trying to make 
> the best OS. Belive it or not. You don't need to own the Desktop market 
> to prove that you have the best OS and Linux isn't really about proving 
> anything to anyone anyway. I've always hated how the media pits us, the 
> Linux community, against M$; but what I hate even more is how we've 
> started listening. So let me say for the record That I have *zero* 

I see it as more of a case that if the only bastion of freedom left on the
planet is your home, then you've lost.

As you say m$ wants "the world". If they would use *only* standard
protocols and data formats, then it wouldn't matter that others use their
products. Moto Guzzi, though small, still have a very broad base because
there are street standards that they can build for. What happens when every
street corner has a control booth and they only let vehicles that m$ has
approved through? Moto Guzzi goes away if m$ doesn't approve them. We can
only reverse engineer, etc. so much. Especially when they're making it
illegal :(.

If someone keeps intruding on your freedom, you have to either give up your
freedom or fight to keep it. Since the DoJ obviously won't protect our
freedoms, we have to.

ciao,

der.hans
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