[Sussex] Re: Kylix and now PHP!

[Gareth Ablett]

> On 06 June 2003 at 00:28 john wrote:
> <snip>
> > The "more you sell, the cheaper it gets" attitude often found
> > in business does not seem to apply, when it comes to software
> > of a proprietary nature (especially when the proprietor is M$),
> > but about nailing you down and screwing the last drips of cash
> > that they can manage.
> 
Steve Wrote 

> I've snipped down to the one bit of you posting were I disagree
> enough to post myself.  I think M$ is no different to any other
> super-corp. with a monopoly.  IBM where much the same back in the
> '60s (or so I'm told).  One only has to look to the price fixing,
> and other illegal activities that cartels go in for from time to
> time to see that M$ is not the only one to use such tactics.
> 
> M$ would be a much more customer friendly organisation if there
> was good competition.  It couldn't pull of licensing stuns in the
> ways it has or is customers would move over.  At the moment
> Linux is not perceived as ready or the flood would have started.
> I've got the feeling that the actual readiness is not the issue,
> but the perceived readiness that matters.

I Totally agree with this its the sad truth though.
I was reading computing yesterday and saw this little snippet

"Steer clear of Linux on the desktop"

A group called 'Giga Information' recon that it will be 2005 before
Its worth using Linux as a desktop environment.

And by that definition they recon also that Linux will be a 
formidable challenge to M$.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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