![]() ![]() (enter “when I was a kid I walked five miles to school uphill both ways section”) MS did not invent the idea of proprietary software, but more than anyone else, they have pushed the idea that computer owners are only “end-users” and that we do not own the software we have bought. This is not off-topic on a story about “Longhorn”, because the issue is whether Microsoft will maintain dominance via their desktop near-monopoly, or whether they will become just another software company. I don’t know about the thoughts of the poster to whom you replied, but I can tell you my own about Linux/GNU-Linux/Free Software/OSS or whatever you want to call it. What matters is that their junior high buddies told them that Microsoft is evil and that you’re really cool if you install Mandrake.’ “Because it doesn’t matter to the slashdork group-think crowd how good Microsoft technology is. ![]()
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