Performance shock

[Leif]

Tom Adelstein Wrote: 
> The outrage with which you replied speaks volumes. The problem with

> Linux forums????? What's that about?

> 

> Microsoft employs former members of national intelligence agencies to

> undermine the companies and organizations it considers a threat. It

> operates as the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and in concert with

> Bill's father's law firm - Perry, Gates and Ellis. One commentary
> claims

> that Microsoft has demonstrated more influence peddling than anyone

> since the Al Capone Era in Chicago.

> 

> Three years ago, I wrote an exhaustive investigative piece for

> 32BitsOnline that got 100's of thousands of reads called : Did
> Microsoft

> Try to Kill UNIX?

> 

> You can't find the article anywhere and the references to how they got

> into US government procurement have been removed from the their
> original

> URL's like the Open Group.

> 

> You don't see anything like that coming out of Linux Forums. You don't

> see money going from Microsoft to SCO to the lawyer hired to prosecute

> Microsoft by the Justice Department kind of things from Linux people.

> 

> But, you did see people mentioning ways to speed up OOo and
> information

> about how to make things work better.

> 

> The subject title - Performance Shock - while perhaps not intending to

> insult or cause a problem, will get a knee jerk reaction. 

> 

> And in the event you are not aware - people in many countries have
> gone

> to jail for not having licensed Microsoft software. I wrote about

> several cases of this and people wrote in and commented on it on

> LinuxToday (before it became part of Internet.com). -- Members of the

> BSA in many countries got themselves appointed as "Special
> Prosecutors".

> Years before, MS gave free software to white box manufacturers in
> places

> like El Salvador, Turkey, Indonesia and on and on. People bought

> computers with that software on it. Then, the BSA (Microsoft) ran

> campaigns saying people had to pay their license fees or go to jail.

> They had billboards with depictions of people handcuffed and escorted

> into paddy wagons. The white box guys didn't get so much as a traffic

> ticket - but end users in third world countries helped Microsoft makes

> its "sales estimates" for several quarters during the tech downturn.

> 

> People have lost homes, jobs, families, faced fines, court, arrest -
> so

> big Bill can be the richest man in the world. 

> 

> With that in the background of the discussion, I say to you no harm

> intended. But, given the response to the comment and the very pointed

> shots -- one might conclude a nerve was touched eh. 

> 



What does microsoft's anti-competitive business practices have to do
with anything ? I dislike it as much as most people (clearly not you
though), but the original post here was technical. Can you not divorce
the two things for just two minutes to talk about the software on its
own merits ? Microsoft being an evil corporation does not change the
fact (yes, fact, not FUD - your computer does not cancel his computer
out) that things run faster on his computer. 



Also, your comment that his title will get a kneejerk reaction is
great, given that you were the one to supply the kneejerk reaction. And
the problem with linux forums that he was talking about, I think,
referred to your kind of input.



I prefer linux. I don't, however, stick my fingers in my ears and sing
la-la-la everything is perfect and better than microsoft.


-- 
Leif