Re:o my god (Score 1)

I run a network of a hundred or so windows machines. I've only been fiddling with Linux for about a year and I don't write code, That said, a month or so ago I installed my first Linux machine on the network, a Redhat 7.1 mailserver on an old pentium piece of crap computer I reworked for the purpose. I had to argue for months to get management to let me try it. I downloaded the software, set it up according the the instructions and faq. Wonder of wonders, it works just fine. Having read the "innovations" of Windows XP, I'm absolutely convinced it offers almost everything RedHat 7.1 does and outside of a few multimedia buttons nothing it doesn't. Yes, you need to read the instructions, but any good professional should do that. Having fiddled with the productivity applications also included, I don't see what the people on my network couldn't get done with the apps included. The point of all this is to simply say that all these people "bashing Microsoft" seem to me to be entirely justified. More so when I think of all the money Microsoft is trying to force out of the economy without any corresponding increase in the productivity of the people who use their products. That's always the bottom line and from what I can see, what Microsoft is doing is trying to extort money from everyone it can, developers, users and other software companies. Want to spur the economy? Stop Microsoft. What they're doing should be a criminal act. (Oops, it is a criminal act).