Jeff said:
Hi rawrite , Re: Microsoft Vs. Linux ,
You write ,
" On the one hand
is a system which is created by programmers ,
who seek to have openness in code ,
so that the best ideas can evolve and prosper .
On the other hand , there is a system of secrecy and lies
that attempts to create
an aura of mystery about technology
to drive the price higher and higher ,
but rather than create quality products
that are worth that price ,
the main thing is to try and keep the public ignorant
and stall progress "
Ok , I'll give you that ,
Linux is more innovative than Microsoft .
But what you don't seem to realize is this :
There is a time and a place for everything .
Linux works for Unique solutions ,
were specialists rule a tiny collection of servers .
Microsoft works for Standard solutions ,
where the soccer moms
rule a vast Virtual network of desktops ,
where each node is the Virtual king of it's domain .
But here you show the lack of experience, and thus your comments are
made without recourse to fact, knowledge or other valid means, much as
Bill Gates and Jeff Relf have never had a real job in computing.
For example, Jeff, your sole work in computing in the past 10 years, if
your comments are to be believed, is that of writing c code on windows
98 for a group of bankers who use this simulation to be trained. Now, I
would call that experience narrow, when it comes to making such broad
comments as you have written above.
My experience is a rich diversity of programming, support and systems
administration for companies such as Microsoft, Boeing, Nordstrom,
duPont. I have also worked for small businesses and medium businesses.
These jobs have included Information Technology companies, cell phone
companies, and many Internet and web related companies.
My experience gives me a different perspective, and that perspective is
far from that of Bill Gates and Jeff Relf, who have little or no
experience with the customer. My experience tells me that each and
every personal computer, or desktop, is just that -- /personal/ . The
whole beauty of the technology is that it is an /individual/ technology.
The marketing literature, and people of little business experience
outside of a restricted domain, such as Bill Gates or Jeff Relf, cannot
understand that the user is more concerned with optimizing his her or
her own needs -- not in interoperability with others. The business user
has very very specific needs, and the more those needs are met by a
particular combination, teh more that business person sees the value of
the technology.
Also, the home user. To blithely make sweeping and idiotic statements
and to belittle the home user about /standards/ is sheer unknowing
buffoonery -- better to sell the services of Bill Gates and Jeff Relf as
travelling clowns than to say that they even know the remotest bit about
the home user and desktop.
The real standards, as I have said many times before, for the user, are
not desktop, they are the standards of the Web and the Internet -- which
are so much more valuable to him than the old hackneyed code of Bill
Gates and Jeff Relf who fail and fail so much. The home user sees the
desktop as a portal to goods and services. He finds his own way to
connect and be served. He wants the choices of a stable browser (
Mozilla ) or a fast browser ( Firebird ) and not to be handicapped by IE
and other low or inadequate products such Bill Gates and Jeff Relf are
writing. They are only seeing a /mass market/ when all manufacturing
trends of the last 20 years are about custom products, tailored
services, not the 1890''s mentality of Bill Gates and Jeff Relf who only
create poor low grade software that is not adequate for the 21st century.
That is why Bill Gates must sell his stock and prepare for a limited
retirement because the services of Bill Gates and Jeff Relf are no
longer needed by the desktop users and the Bankers who need training on
better and better and better systems than what they are writing.
