Re: Anti-MS drivel

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

> Up to now they rule the consumer OS market with more than 90% market
> share. Any error they make regarding default settings in their OS
> affects 90% of all end consumers. It is impossible to require that many
> customers to adapt. Rather the vendor has to adapt. This is only
> logical.

What's the incentive to make the vendor change?  It's going to take one
HUGE boycott to achieve that, HUGE becuase the market is worlwide, and we
can't get a few thousand users on this single FD list to agree to much
from one day to the next, let alone to get a large international boycott
up and running, despite the dependance of many gov's and home users, and
corps upon the M$ code.  So far the feds and a number of state in the US
have not been up to forcing change in redmond, even with million dollar a
day fines once imposed.

And let's face it, many of the folks on this and other lists that buy a
PC, wipe windows and install a *bsd or linux/*nix clone, are still
contributing to the redmond  bottom line of their big buck, cause most
those PC's come pre-installed with a M$ OS underneath.  What do they care
if that software license sits in a drawer and remains unused after first
turning on the system?  They made their share <smile>.

And most on these list should understand as well, I do not disagree with
the anti-M$ sentiments, I've posted many of my own over the years, but, I
do know better then to lie to myself and think that M$ on the desktop or
in the corporate world is faced with any major threat at this time from
redhat or suse.

Understand this is not going to be a simple boycott by a few thousand or
hundred thousand buyers of bannanas from say nicaragua...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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