What makes Linux great?

[James Sissel]

It's not so much what makes Linux great.  Like a lot of things Linux has
room for improvement.  The real question is why does Micro$oft svck (sorry
about the misspelling but I've got to get the word out of our Draconian
firewall) so much.

Why are we forced to buy Micro$oft junk when we buy new PCs?  Software we
don't want or use?  I'll be happy to send you back all of the unused CDs and
floppies for a full refund.

Why do we have to suffer through so many virus attacks.  I'm beginning to
think Micro$oft is writing the holes in the software intentionally and then
writing the viruses to attack them.  Then we have to spend more money
protecting ourselves.  Come on, Bill, admit it.  Viruses are a Micro$oft
attempt to take over the World.  What kind of back doors have you put into
all of the Government software?

Why does Bill think he knows how I want to use my PERSONAL computer better
than I do?  It is kind of annoying to exit Windows and have it shut down the
PC.  Just because I'm not in Windows does not mean I'm done using my PC.

Why does Micro$oft automatically install a bunch of junk that we don't want
or use and is dangerous?  (Example, the personal web server in Windows 98.
Windows XP has a clock that wants to call up Micro$oft and get the "correct"
time.  Oh, and I'm sure the remote control software in XP is secure.)

In the early-90s I ran a copy of WordPerfect 4.2 on my hard driveless XP
from 2 floppies and 640K ram.  5 years later Word was taking many, many
Megabytes to just to install.  Was it any better?  What justified the
massive code bloat?

At a FoxPro conference I asked why my Windows for Workgroups 3.11 copy of
FoxPro 2.6 would sometimes completely crash my system.  Did Micro$oft say,
"Oh, sorry.  We'll fix that bug right away.  After all, you PAID for
software that should work so it is our obligation to fix things that are
broken."  Or, did they say, "You need to pay us more money and upgrade to
the latest OS and version that have even more bugs."  Hmmm, you guessed it.
It was the second.

Why is Microsoft Access, now in version ?, the most complete piece of
________ (fill in the blank with your own bad word) ever created?  You've
had how many versions now to get it right.  And yet it still eats up the CPU
when running and completely crashes unexpetedly.  You people bought FoxPro
(and basically killed), one of the finest pieces of PC Database software
made.  And yet you still push Access.

I will not go on.  There is just too much bad about Micro$oft.

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