Microsoft, Linux

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>>>>> "Gia" == Gia Moran <morans@execpc.com> writes:

    Gia> Can you fill me in on why some are not exactly *for*
    Gia> Microsoft? I have no strong feelings about them one way or
    Gia> another, mainly because I am ignorant of any actions they've
    Gia> taken or any other newsworthy item.

I feel that Microsoft is trying to to the exact same thing that IBM
tried to do in the late 1960s, before the court ordered "unbundling".
They are trying to create their own standards and ignore the
established open standards in the interest of forcing everyone to do
it thier way.  

It has already come out in court cases that they have used
undocumented operating system calls to keep their software from
running on other operating systems.  They have also be found in court
to have deliberately changed their interfaces to keep other software
from continuing to work on their systems after an upgrade.

You cannot effectively program the Windows, Windows-95, or NT
graphical user interfaces under C++ unless you use their compiler and
libraries, so already they have practically eliminated the use of
competitor's compilers.

Because of these and similar practices, I consider them a manace.  In
1989 I switched my machine over from DOS to Unix, primarily so I would
not have to deal with Microsoft's technical support.  It was terrible
then.  (I hear it is better now.)

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