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Originally posted by <Emjarrh>:
I love the way that UNIX users call Unix a "real OS" and everything else as just junk.
I didn't say UNIX is a "real OS" and everything else is just junk. I just said "Microsoft OSs" are junk.
Hey, the only reason I am so fed up with MS is because I have so much experience with them. I try to use something else wherever possible. I work more on the server end of things so it's still pretty easy to use something other than MS in this area.
I'm not necessarily biased because of the software itself, but more because of how the software comes about, the tactics of the company and the man that heads it. I fear the day when there is *only* a Microsoft, then where will the prices and motivation for innovation be? If it weren't for Apple, IBM, Xerox, HP, Mosaic, BSD, and many many other companies and EDU projects to come up with the ideas there wouldn't be a Windows. Every time another OS comes out with an innovation, Microsoft has to pump out a new OS to keep up. Now that benefits you does it not? What if there were only Microsoft? Nuclear winter comes to mind...
Not only that, but I make about 3-4 times as much being a *NIX engineer than I can being an MCSE. MCSEs are a dime a dozen. Speaking of MCSE, how great are those certifications? Every time MS pumps out a new OS your MSCE cert is worthless until you cert on the new system. Tell me this isn't an MS scam! It's better than sending out those chain letter spams.
And by the way "FTP" is not completely UNIX based. It's part of the TCP/IP RFCs, specifically a tool provided by any OS that includes the TCP/IP protocol for utilizing the "ftp" protocol (if that OS chooses to follow the standards). Of course it was initially developed in UNIX. And Microsoft wouldn't even be on the internet without TCP/IP (I suppose that was their innovation too huh? Nope, UNIX, but one might think that stellar, ahem, protocol NetBEUI was a Microsoft innovation, nope, reaped from IBM).
Another reason I hate MS is they completely ignore standards. Standards are put in place to make operating systems work well together. Microsoft ignores the standards groups and either twist standards or ignore them completely. They do this for their ultimate goal in ruling the world.
I choose to stop using MS products after using them since DOS 3.x. I choose to believe that every MS OS is inferior. I also choose to do these things not based on what I hear, but based on my direct experience with MS operating systems, which is extensive. I choose to make my beliefs known on this site known as "fuckmicrosoft.com". I can't think of a site that would be more likely to share my views.
Now if in the future MS takes a similar path that Apple is doing and put their nice shiny UI on top of a real OS I would likely become a supporter (if they don't screw it up). Since Mac has done it maybe there is hope, they like to steal everyone elses ideas. But I doubt they will for one reason. 1) It would make them more interoperable with other OSs and they don't want to play with others. Their goal is to wipe out all the others until there is only one. I have to admit that their method for going about this task has been brilliant. Get the desktop market first and brainwash all the users.
And no, you certainly haven't offended me. I can't imagine I would have offended you (unless your last name is Gates, Balmer, or Allen).
Hey, this is fun.
[ December 15, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
