From: Vinayak Hegde vinayakh@gmail.com
On 5/27/05, Dinesh Joshi dinesh_pro@hotmail.com wrote:
AFAIC, M$ has no morals or ethics. They lie, cheat, steal, rip-off
people
etc... But I think they are the biggest reasons why GNU/Linux has
progressed
so far. The FSF wasn't popular before the Linux kernel came around. Once
the
Linux kernel came around they had a full fledged OS that could probably rival M$ Winbloze.
GNU/Linux would have existed even without M$. It is stupid to say that Linux has progressed so far because of M$ unless M$ was funding Linux development discreetly :). Linux is popular because it gets the job done (for techies atleast). No clippy helpers and fancy "features". Also Pro-OSS is not necessarily Anti-M$.
FSF is around for almost 20 years now. GCC was popular before Linux was was even written :).
:)cheers Vinayak H
dude all i am saying is competition acts as a catalyst to progress...
Regards, Dinesh
_________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/