Dan Armak wrote:
On Thursday 23 January 2003 01:42, Amir Tal wrote:Yes, but he also said something which is true. The open source community is not good enough at taking software the last 5% that take 95% of the work.
how typical for them to take advantage of the ignorance of someYeah, and remember, those 'disadvantages' the MS guy's referring to are the Viral GPL.
unexperienced readers, and come out with something like "we are not talking
to our costumers anymore about the disadvantages of linux, we are focusing
our arguments about our advantages over it". :)
And the new advantage he presents basically comes down to being able to run a Microsoft-only system, from os to word processor to web server, and so getting better integration. While the Linux alternative is, as he says, individually tailored to suit each user (on the scale of big businesses at least) and so will never succeed because it's impossible to make such custom configurations that are as well integrated as a Microsoft-only system, you know. And if IBM tried, they would have to give up their IP to the opensource community. Great logic :-)
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
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