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Originally posted by Radar
And it's sweet that you use linux. I like to play with it when I can but I've only got one box so I use Win2k. I'm a MCSE, MCT, A+, CNA, CNE. I'm not married to any OS but I like open source and I like linux. I have yet to see a web server better than apache. When I build my next box I'll probably make this one Linux. But there are a lot of flavors to use. The last one I used was Redhat and it installed in a snap. It recognized all my devices and had drivers for them. It required hardly anything to set up. Even easier than MS OS's
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MCSE: Minesweeper Champion and Solitaire Expert?
I agree that Gates has done much more good than harm for society. We now have one prevalent personal computer platform instead of dozens -- and that's a good thing. He is largely responsible for bringing computing to the masses.
And he did it all out of greed. He stole others' ideas and used them as his own. He played the game harder and better than anyone else, made a fortune, and whoops, accidentally made the world a better place.
Then he went too far. And a groundswell of discontent finally exploded, and now Linux will eventually supplant both Microsoft and Unix in the server space.
Sun complained that Microsoft broke Java (no argument there), and got an injunction against them creating new, incompatible JVM's. They could continue to distribute their current JVM for a certain period. That is a case where we needed government intervention, and it worked the way it's supposed to.
So they decided to take the JVM out of Windows, and now Sun is bitching because it means a lot of Java stuff won't work out-of-the-box. So what do they do, develop a great JVM and work with OEM's to get it preinstalled? No, they go to court to force Microsoft to distribute it for them.
Why the hell should they? It's Microsoft's product, and Sun thinks they should be forced to distribute a competitor's product? Is Coke required to include a can of Pepsi in every twelve-pack they sell?