Interesting things I notice about Linux and its community and not all of them are good.
It seems Microsoft have one crazy guy called Steve Ballmer. As Linux users and developers though we have to suffer a whole army of guys just as crazy. We don’t even get the option of keeping them safely in Seattle.
One thing I noticed at Edlug talks last night is people are still venomously bashing Microsoft just because its Microsoft. For example, MS Office is a perfectly viable office suite. Open Office is not magically better because it is free or has a different menu layout. I can probably give you hundreds of cases where OO fails and MS Office gets it right (especially reqgards to speadsheets). Also downright lies about MS Office really don’t help, if your going to compare two products, please at least have used them both.
Linux advocates keep bashing on about “Freedom” well one of the freedoms I still enjoy is the ability to select an application that suits my needs. Sometimes these applications cost money, sometimes they even come from a company called Microsoft.
every time you use excel, you make rms cry
Comment by tef — October 2, 2009 @ 2:28 pm
I agree with your comment on freedom to select the application suite that ‘I want’ — One of the things that prevents me to totally move to Linux/Ubuntu is the availability of Microsoft Office… though I am willing to pay $$ to microsoft.
–jayabharath
Comment by Jayabharath — October 2, 2009 @ 4:17 pm