Want a small proof that MS fucks up the economy?

[Bazoukas]

Well take for example me.Just a stupid example.

 I have gotten a Loan worth of $28,000 dollars. My tuiton is around $3,000 per semester.

  A good portion of that money goes to paying the teachers, and running expenses of the school. Another good portion of that goes where? In paying the fucking fees for using Windos, Office apps and their  fucking MS compiler.


   Tuiton would be less if they would have gone with Linux, which means less loans. Sure the goverment will get their money back, but its gonna be in small doses. $40-$60 dollars a month. Sure there is the interest. But still they wont get their money back right away.

  The loan would be of a lesser amount if they wouldnt use MS because tuitons would be less.. But, for real, I dont fucking get it, people like the abuse.

[ November 26, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas [The F*en Linux Militant] ]

[Refalm]

I can buy Office XP for

[Calum]

yeah but nobody would go and get openoffice then, would they? or at least they would not go recorded as having done so.

as it stands, i bet all the students are leaping to get their $15 copies of office, purely because they feel like they are getting the jump on expensive technology. openoffice.org is free, so what's the incentive for them to jump at getting it for... well, free? that's a saving of nothing, whereas the perceived saving on office is a couple of hundred bucks.

useless.

[lazygamer]

Not to be a loo-sah, but economies are pretty resilant. As much as MS sux, I doubt that a licensing scheme alone would do even minor damage. In fact, I fail to see how wind0ze even does minor damage to the economy.

This may sound heretical, but doesn't Microsoft and their sins create jobs and get consumers pumping money into the economy? They allow less competent people to be experts. They create jobs because stuff don't work so good on their OS. So software and hardware companies must hire tech support staff to solve problems that is their fault, but woulden't exsist if Windows wasn't buggy. The upgrade cycle by MS also gets people buying new hardware more constantly.

Im not advocating this as good for you or me, im just saying the facts. MS creates more jobs(consumer tech support for companies, and general computer troubleshooter technicians) and makes consumers and corps pay alot of extra money for stuff they shoulden't have to pay for. How is this bad for the economy?

[Bazoukas]

Most of the would be programmers and Admins, end up doing "help desk" jobs with a louzy salary to pay their loans.

[choasforages]

create jobs? feel free to tell dimitry skylov that/*however you spell it, and yeah, more of a dmca issue since adobe is the basterds doing it, owell*/. so if i operate a cocain ring and creat "jobs" in the distribution stage, the consumer market, the manufacture stage, and the growing stage, thats ok?

<sarcism>
actally if i were to pay taxes on it every stage like every other production corperation, the government probably wouldn;t care, just rember to tally the %50 crack tax into the price ok?
</sarcism>

[ December 02, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

[Annorax]

Just remember to tell people u'll give them a discount for using XP cds to light their drugs.... kill 2 birds with one stone!

[jtpenrod]

quote:This may sound heretical, but doesn't Microsoft and their sins create jobs and get consumers pumping money into the economy? They allow less competent people to be experts. They create jobs because stuff don't work so good on their OS.

Create jobs? Hell, MS has created entire industries. Where would Symantec and McAfee be today were it not for the need for anti-virus soft to protect the inherently insecure Winderz? Then there's Norton System Works, Norton Internet Security, Clean Sweep, Ghost -- all dedicated to but one purpose: helping the customer overcome the many, many failings and shortcomings of Winderz.

But before you get too excited about that, consider this: what could we have accomplished by now with technology had all those dollars been invested in innovative new companies instead of companies that exist only because Winderz is so utterly fucked up?
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[beltorak0]

quote:
Just remember to tell people u'll give them a discount for using XP cds to light their drugs.... kill 2 birds with one stone!

don't you mean kill two birds with one stoner....?

-t.

[ December 02, 2002: Message edited by: beltorak0 ]

[choasforages]

it goes like


kill one brain with two stones

[ December 02, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

[lazygamer]

quote:But before you get too excited about that, consider this: what could we have accomplished by now with technology had all those dollars been invested in innovative new companies instead of companies that exist only because Winderz is so utterly fucked up?

Lol totally true. I think less about innovative comapanies, and more about being able to run games with a few hundred less MHZ(and far more stability) under a highly optimized Linux(or replacement that occured beacause MS died earlier) platform.

Im not happy about Winderz, just trying to state a fact with the economy thing. Of course im not all about the "greater good", im a selfish bastard who dont care about the economy, just my OS.