Re:Guerrilla(sp?) marketing (Score 1)

While I can't applaud the "go kill yourself" comment, I find it refreshing that a few people actually post to these forums in a less-than-M$-is-the-devil fashion. So many posters take the OPLP (Obnoxious Pretentious Linux Punk) stance that everything is wrong with Microsoft and the status quo and that the only correct answer is free/open love/software. Even the wonderfully sardonic CmdrTaco sunk to pandering depths with his post of this article.

While I feel it's easy to respect those with non-dogmatic viewpoints (pro or anti M$), people who are slaves to the "popular attitude" usually vilify them.

Does M$ force us to buy their products? Maybe; through their reduced support of older products and their deals with new machine manufacturers. But blaming them for making money is like blaming commercials for an irritating TV experience. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, that's the way things work right now. You can turn off the TV, rent videos/DVDs, watch PBS or pay channels. The same thing goes with our industry.

It's time for the crybabies to cease assailing our ears.

You want to play?
Here's the field, here's the rules. Don't decry the teams as awful just because they score. And no, they don't cheat. Cheating is when you break the rules. In our industry, the consumers make the ultimate rules and there aren't too many of them.

You want a different game?
Get some others to go with you and start a new one ... (Of course, I guess I have the same choice in forums, don't I?)

My father and grandfather both worked for IBM starting in 1941. They worked under the idea that mainframes were the only answer and were surprised by computers on the desktop. I started in various UNIX platforms (yes, I still consider LINUX different than UNIX). I work with every major platform available. I'm not installing XP, but I can't argue with the success M$ has contributed to our industry.

Make your flames good 'cause my filter is set above the crap. (prolly even above the score of this post ;-)

salasia, out.