[school-discuss] M$ Windows .... who cares.

["Les R" <openadmin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard,

Agreed. We have to keep our eyes on our  open source work, projects,
etc. We only have limited resources, time and energy. We should
husband them carefully, and focus on those things that we feel are
important (and IMO useful to others as well as ourselves).

Pick the richer, more useful and relevant fields of OSS in a large
varieties of areas.

Even saying this is wasting my time... (grin). Back to work.


Les Richardson
Open Admin for Schools






On Feb 18, 2008 3:56 PM, Richard Andrews <bbmaj7@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My stance on Microsoft is "who cares".
> Linux and FOSS projects didn't get to be successful by emulating or being a
> better Microsoft, but rather going in completely the opposite direction and
> ignoring Microsoft: security versus convenience, trust versus secrecy,
> flexibility versus rigidity, serving users versus serving shareholders,
> controlled from on-high versus driven by the masses.
>
> Consider what characteristics you (as a school) would rather expose your
> students to via a technology partner: the secret, inflexible, greedy, fascist
> state; or the secure, flexible, benevolent democracy.
>
> Vista is a dog. Even the CEO at my day job tossed away Windows and went Mac
> because of Vista.
>
>
> --- Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There are, of course, significant questions as to whether
> > Windows 7 (or whatever its name will finally be) is really
> > going to appear in 2009. I'm seeing some forecasts that
> > 2011 is more likely. It is a fairly safe assumption that
> > the sooner it ships, the more screwed-up it will be--
> > unless, of course, it amounts to nothing more than a big
> > bug-fix of Vista, which won't exactly improve the image of
> > M$ a whole lot. Even if we assume that a longer wait for a
> > new Windows allows M$ to come out with something *really*
> > significant (which I consider *highly* doubtful), what
> > will be going on when it finally hits?
>
>
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