[BNM] the potentially massively long and drawn out MSFT/YHOO thread

[Chris Billett]

Nah, what the cool kids do is start rock bands or write like Vonnegut. These
are just two points of view (and my flippant troublemaking internet personae
which I *really* ought to knock on the head one of these days ­ anyone know
of a good exorcist?) and mine is that Microsoft is a profit making business
like most, and that technology is a toolbox that you should rummage about in
until you have the right tool for the job, be it the big M or other. (for
the record, I use nearly a hundred percent FreeBSD servers at the main job,
and mostly open source for web malarchy.

(Sorry about any offense taken Nick, but I¹ve had three pints and a
Starbucks signature hot chocolate. That¹ll screw with anyone¹s hormones!)

On 01/02/2008 23:18, "Nick Taylor" <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:

> 
>   - because of Software Patents,
>   - because of attacks on Open-Source (that most of our livelihoods
> depend on),
>   - because of Palladium and the whole philosphy that MS has the right
> to control what's on your machine,
>   - because of anti-trust violations and monoplistic behaviour
>   - because of agressive and destructive "positioning" of microsoft
> "standards" for the last 10 years.
> 
> "What the cool kids do" is what the
> kids-who-want-to-appear-cool-and-cynical say when really they're just
> too apathetic or under-informed to stand for anything.
> 
> 
> Nothing personal like, but you started it.
> 
> 
>> > Because boycotting Microsoft is what cool kids do. *g*
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On 01/02/2008 22:41, "Pete Barr-Watson" <petebw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 
>>> >> why?