MS-Bashing (was Re: [Klug-general] Bill Gates made Frankenstein Software Industry)

[Peter Childs]

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



 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.

Peter.
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