What makes Linux great?

[Brian Kelsay]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> You know, I was going to answer this.  I even started to list the main reasons 
> why I'm currently converting all of my Windows systems to Linux.
> 
> Then I returned to my senses.  Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that it 
> views competitors as enemies.  Competition is to be smotherd, obliterated, 
> discredited, or if all else fails, assimilated.
> 
> So why does Microsoft want to know what makes Linux great?  So it can refute 
> it, tailoring it's FUD campaigns more carefully?   So it can find other 
> tactics like it's support of SCO's lawsuits to impede Linux's strengths? So 
> it can engineer it's own software to lock Linux systems out, prevent them 
> from succeeding in mixed environments?  
> 
> We'd all like to believe that it's so it can target those strengths as ways to 
> enhance it's own software, but years track record show that even when 
> Microsoft does this, it also does the "take away their air" tactics and is 
> ultimately more interested in it's own "triumph" than in the advancement of 
> technology.
> 
> No, Mr. Surkan, I don't believe you're the kindly uncle who just wants to 
> understand us better.  Even if your personal motives are pure, even if the 
> infomation you collect is used for good, it will also be picked over by the 
> best experts in the world for any scrap that can be used against Linux - and 
> ultimately against us.
> 
Well said.  I only have one constructive thing to add.  Why is it that 
with each successive OS from M$ I get a more powerful computer to run 
just as slow as the last.  Why does XP require a MINIMUM of 256MB of ram 
  to run decently.  A similar complaint could be made of KDE and Gnome, 
but I don't have to run those, I have choice.

-- 
---------------------------
Somewhere there is a village missing an idiot.