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Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 12:26 PM EDT |
We may have a new hypocrisy high mark for the month in this
article.
>>Apparently, Fairsearch believes that it's "predatory"
>>for a company to gain market share by giving its
>>software away
for free.
Fairsearch is deeply in bed with Microsoft, and they are really just
MS's sockpuppet. MS: the company that gave away IE to take market share from
Netscape. Now that was giving away software as part of a predatory
business practice. However, the method would not have established IE if not for
the way IE was (illegally) tied to the operating system. IE is at the bottom of
the performance ladder, when we look at available browsers. Without it having
been forced into the computers of the poor, clueless customers, they would have
asked around for browser recommendations... and only The Gartner Group would
call it not quite completely unacceptable.
MS has two between 1 and 2
fundamental problems with Linux. First and foremost is performance. The
megalithic architecture guarantees poor reliability and security. Windows is a
bloated carcass, so it won't compete in speed, either. Okay, so I've lumped the
individual performance issues into one problem, but they have Windows' poor,
antimodular architecture as a solid foundation. The other problem/savior for
Windows is that FOSS is free. You can't beat the price, so the curious have a
smorgasbord of FOSS distros to try. However, people often don't take free
seriously. I've seen this in business, as well as with friends that have shops.
I'm not sure whether the free price is a plus or a minus. For me, I would have
paid a conventional price for a Linux set, because I was that fed up with
Windows XP. Paying would have assured that I gave Linux a fair shake, had I had
any bumps in my transition path. As it was, though, Fedora 2 was such a dream
come true in comparison with XPSP2, that price didn't matter.
Regards,
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 12 2013 @ 12:35 PM EDT |
So, Using their logic, then churchs, and charity ogranization of the world, ALL
doing FREE for folks, will have to stop doing FREE too?
No more free, because you want to?
No more FREE food at Food pantries for those who need to eat (all because
someone out there is making profit selling food, and that FREE food competes
with them)?
Heck, maybe I will have to charge other people for every time I open a door for
them (for FREE)?
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Authored by: mcinsand on Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 06:23 AM EDT |
Just remembered something in response to speculation that win-8 is the
startof MS' stop. In the early '90's, spreadsheets were 1-2-3, period, despite
it
being a sluggish resource hog and a bad actor when it came to the concept of
printing. Excel was out, but it wasn't going anywhere. Then, we started getting
calls from MS, offering some free copies for us to try out. I hated Lotus
software so much that I was sure to talk them into just one more copy... I was
going to be sure to install on boss' PC. Yeah, what they did was predatory.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
Asked if Facebook Home could ever come to iOS, Zuckerberg said,
“anything that happens with Apple is going to happen with partnership. Google’s
Android is open so we don’t have to work with
them.”
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/14/facebook-home-and-the-prom
ise-of-android/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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