[SATLUG] Pokes at Microsoft (off Topic)

[Robert J Hewitt]

You know it seems to me that everyone including myself seems to take shots
at Microsoft a lot.  But in true defense to the novice computer user like my
neighbor daughter, the nice family just up the street and even my wife, all
who don't want to learn Linux. (God forbid) but there are a lot of people
who use both like me.  Listening to the Linux groups slam MS and the novices
looking at Linux like it came from another planet.  Maybe we should learn to
be more tolerant to MS and its products I use XP and I am looking at a
Laptop with Vista installed on it.  I still use Linux on some of my
computers and I like it but I also use Win XP on other computers.  The point
of this message is that just because we prefer Linux over MS products
doesn't really mean we need to go forth and attack MS as if it is the enemy
bent on world destruction, and Bill Gates is not the Devil incarnate.  I
think maybe for this new year on 2007 we could be more tolerant of the
Microsoft giant and tone back on the wording of attacking Microsoft or M$ as
it gets put sometimes.  Just remember and most of you Linux Users had
business and ethics and economics and government courses know that Bill
Gates is living the American dream just like the rest of us want to, he
produced a product called DOS and then windows, and then Office and most of
the world will use it no mater how we as the Open Source Community will
claim different (and yes that does mean the US Government who tried the
anti-trust suit) and Microsoft who expanded to other thinks like the Xbox
and Xbox 360 (of which I own both along with a Game cube  and no I don't
like Play station). So let's try to remember that next time we post anything
about MS I know I am.   

 

 

 

 

 

             Robert 

                Hewittrh_78244 at grandecom.net