QUOTE(Shadow Rider @ May 12 2008, 03:31 AM)
This is bullshit. This is no different than some low life trying to bring a bogus lawsuit against a celebrity just because they have money.
It's VERY different. You're comparing a multi-billion dollar worldwide corporation that's violated a court ruling to an individual seeking compensation for reason X.
QUOTE(Shadow Rider @ May 12 2008, 03:31 AM)
Why should Microsoft be required to allow other software platforms to connect to Windows? It's Microsoft's product and they should be able to do whatever they want with it. Fuck the competition, at least in America, it's surrvival of the fittest baby. They can either get Windows or go another route. Microsoft shouldn't have to cater to their competition. Why would it really be any different if say Sony sued Microsoft because a PS3 controller won't work with an Xbox 360? This is insane.
Perhaps you missed it, but in the 90's MS had a monopoly suit in the US (with Netscape). What it boils down to is the fact that Windows comes with 99% of PC's (not to be confused with Mac's, as it's a proprietary format and Windows has always been based off the old IBM standard) sold. If you look hard enough (and I do mean look hard), you may find Linux pre-packaged on a PC.
As MS Windows (or Windoze, as it was 'slanged' in the 90's) is more or less forced upon the consumer out of lack of choice (or even lack of awareness of a choice), there must be something to stop them from monopolizing the rest of the market by default. Windows has included (for quite some time) an internet browser, system utilities, disc writing software, and many other things that there is a competitive market for. If there was never a monopoly suit, we'd be pretty much stuck with what MS offers (probably wouldn't be as good as it is now), and possibly blocked from running competitive software. I'm pretty sure there's a hefty sum of users right here @ x-s who use Firefox as their main browser, but if MS had their way, you'd use NOTHING other than IE7 (I recall back in the day having it installed would actually mess up Netscape).
QUOTE(Shadow Rider @ May 12 2008, 03:31 AM)
On a side note, I'm so sick of people preying on Microsoft and talking trash about them. Monopoly this and monopoly that. STFU already.
I'm pretty sure MS is FAR from being 'preyed' upon, and more than likely don't need you coming to defend their honor on a board dedicated to Xbox and Xbox 360 users.
QUOTE(Shadow Rider @ May 12 2008, 03:31 AM)
The truth is, at least IMO, that if there weren't an operating system available that covered such a wide user base as Windows has, personal computing wouldn't be nearly as common and widespread as it is today. Maybe eventually it would have reached this point, but it would have taken a lot longer. If there were 50 different operating systems available, the availibility of various software would probably be quite limited for each of them. It would just be too costly and time consuming for developers to create software for so many different OS's.
As far as Linux goes, let's face it. Linux sucks. Linux is FREE and still nobody uses it. That has to tell you something right there folks.
You're right, but to a degree (except about Linux. You're DEAD wrong, there). Windows has helped get many people into computing, and later into computer programming, but that doesn't change what constitutes a monopoly. Many of the people who have done the most significant things in computer programming can operate just fine without Windows. My dad was a union painter with no comp experience whatsoever until 1995, when we bought our first PC. As he learned things, he came to loathe the crashing and inefficiency of Windows (95), and began to look for an alternative. He discovered Unix. Long story short, in only 3 years he went from having 0 computer experience, to a linux system administrator; all self-taught.
For a man in his 40s to not only take well to technology, but to completely learn how to run this 'sucky' OS much more efficiently than any Windows PC (iirc, at the time there were almost no companies, at least in my area, who would trust Windows for their network), clearly Linux is not as inferior as you proclaim.
QUOTE(Shadow Rider @ May 12 2008, 03:31 AM)
Sure, I've had the occaisional problem with Windows but nothing in this world is perfect. In my experience when it comes to technology, most people blame the product when most of the time it operator error and if they'd pull their head out of their ass and use their eye sockets to read a book or two, they might be able to figure it out.
Funny you mention the majority of users need to pull their heads out of their respective asses and RTFM, when if you had done the same, I wouldn't have had to type the response you may or may not bother to read
QUOTE(Shadow Rider @ May 12 2008, 03:31 AM)
Also, I'm tired of people saying that Apple computers or Linux based PC's are more secure than Windows. I don't disagree with that statement but if you examine it a little deeper then you'd see that the reason those platforms are more secure than Windows is because if you are trying to write malicious software then it only seems logical to write it for the platform with the widest user base and of course that's Windows.
Surely you jest!
People say they're more secure, because they ARE. Are you also tired of people saying the sky is blue? Perhaps it's purple...
As for malicious code, I recall a virus being written for linux just to see if it could be done; you still had to login as root, and fully execute the code for it to do it's job. Apparently, Linux was still doing it's job as well.
QUOTE(Shadow Rider @ May 12 2008, 03:31 AM)
Microsoft for life. Billy G, you are my hero. Fuck the haters.
Peace.
Billy G? Maybe I'll start calling Linus Torvald Mr. T...
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