On 5/17/07, Richard Davey <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Viruses? God, that old bullshit ladened chestnut*. At least come up with some kind of valid OS argument, please.
1. The virus and malware protection racket - M$ spent billions of dollars and several years making Vista and just like normal it's fully exploitable and insecure. Vista currently has 22 critical exploits listed at securityfocus.com and it's only been out how long? If 22 security researchers are willing to publicly give up their findings do you have any clue how many are keeping their findings secret to sell to the highest bidder? Do have any clue how much a working windoze exploit goes for nowadays? You think all those botnets just happened by accident? All together now, everyone thank M$ for your daily spam. 2. Perpetual Upgrading - you can use Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Server Edition until 2011, fully supported. How long til you're forced to upgrade to Vista? How long before your WinXP install is no longer supported? I would further argue that upgrading a Ubuntu Linux OS is painless. When 2011 comes around, I can do `apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade` to move on. No trips to CompUSA to shell out hundreds of dollars, no upgrading my hardware, none of that. Gentoo Linux is very simple to upgrade too. I relinked my make.profile to the 2007.0 version and `emerge -uDN` away I go. I have a Gentoo box that I've upgraded that way for 4 years now. I have a FreeBSD box that I brought all the way from 4.0 to 6.2 by doing `make buildworld` once a year or so. Microsoft hasn't a clue how to make a simple forward upgrade path for their lusers. But that's how Intel likes it. 3. Bloat - 1.5+ hours to install Vista then finally you get to start installing 'apps'. At that point you find out Vista doesn't support your two year old 3com ethernet card. 3com! Fucking 3com is not supported? Jesus Christ. With Linux you install for 20-30 minutes and immediately have 99% of your apps ready to go. The hardest thing to decide is what color I want to make my bash prompt this year. 4. Hostile treatment of customers - M$ is currently choosing to not sue 'opensource' for 235 patent violations. They still want money however, and without showing anyone which patents are being violated. RedHat Linux has stated they will gladly indemnify their users without anyone paying any M$ tax. I hate RPMS as much as the next guy but a bad day fighting RPMS dependencies is still better than a good day fighting M$ viruses (or virii depending on how far north your grade school was located). I always correct people when I hear them say 'computer virus'. I explain how it's a 'Microsoft virus' because in all likelyhood it only affects the idiots running a windoze OS. 5. Predatory Practices - How many companies have been eaten alive by M$ over the years? More than I can count or care to list. Innovation my ass. This guy got tired of listing them and gave up several years ago it seems: http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog/yrcatalog.shtml 6. .NET - proof M$ really wants to be a bank instead of a software vendor. Subscription based software? Give me a break. 7. IE7 - My transparent pngs are almost working, almost. Guess they are trying not to do too much at one time. You can read more on the web: http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+sucks+because 1.62M results, but you probably already knew that being in the M$ loving majority and all. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
