<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 15/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Macdonald-Wallace</b> <<a href="mailto:matthew@truthisfreedom.org.uk">matthew@truthisfreedom.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:45 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:<br>> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:36 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:<br>> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:27:41PM -0000, Stephen Ryan wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > Bill Gates:: Imagination without reason is a monsterous thing.
<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > Enough already. Please stop. I really don't care for this.<br>><br><snip><br>> I for one found the recent round of speculation quite interesting.<br><br>I agree that the speculation was interesting, however the comparisons of
<br>BG to Frankenstein are, IMHO, pointless and are now getting tedious as<br>well.<br><br>As a community, the open-source world needs to stop saying "Microsoft<br>are crap" and start saying "we are the best, why use anyone else?"
<br><br>It's the same message, however it's worded more positively. As a quick<br>straw poll, how many of you work for companies that spend their entire<br>marketing budget on slagging off the opposition? In the FLOSS movement,
<br>we need to prove that our software stands on it's own merits, people<br>will then realise of their own accord that what we can provide as a<br>community is a low-cost, stable, secure and viable business option to<br>
their IT issues.<br><br>Whilst I realise that MS-Bashing is a popular sport in the community<br>(and I have done more than my fair share in the past!), if people are to<br>see through the FUD and consider Linux/FLOSS as a viable business
<br>alternative, we need to stop acting like kids in a playground yelling<br>"you smell of poo" to anyone we don't like! :o)</blockquote><div><br><br> I can think of quite a few other business that spend there time "bashing" the opposition, I mean politicians don't know how to do anything else..... I've also seen insurance and banking doing the same.
<br><br>Peter.<br></div></div>