Comment Re:Just buy it or don't! What IS the prob??? (Score 1) 294
"Nobody is holding a gun to your head. "
Surely for this crowd there will be no problem in making the choice of what OS, browser, etc. to use or not to use. However, the people reading this are not the social norm. This whole case isn't about us, it's about the people that decide they want to learn how to use email and the internet, so they go down to Best Buy and pick the one with the prettiest case and the most exclamation points in the specs ("65535 Bytes of High Speed RAM!").
Well, they take that computer home and click on something with the word "internet" in it, and chances are that will be a microsoft product. The average person is not going to download the installers for other browsers and software if it is already sitting on their desktop. Therefore they are "forced" into using microsoft products. They surely wont be downloading Red Hat rpms.
If most users are "forced" to do this, I think there is an extremely good case against Microsoft and I am puzzled as to how you can't see that as well.
Surely for this crowd there will be no problem in making the choice of what OS, browser, etc. to use or not to use. However, the people reading this are not the social norm. This whole case isn't about us, it's about the people that decide they want to learn how to use email and the internet, so they go down to Best Buy and pick the one with the prettiest case and the most exclamation points in the specs ("65535 Bytes of High Speed RAM!").
Well, they take that computer home and click on something with the word "internet" in it, and chances are that will be a microsoft product. The average person is not going to download the installers for other browsers and software if it is already sitting on their desktop. Therefore they are "forced" into using microsoft products. They surely wont be downloading Red Hat rpms.
If most users are "forced" to do this, I think there is an extremely good case against Microsoft and I am puzzled as to how you can't see that as well.
