wacampbell, on 22 October 2013 - 12:11 PM, said:
It seems a majority of the Linux community are hostile to windows and paranoid that Microsoft exec's spend their every waking day plotting its demise.
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Yes the most of the linux community are hostile to windows... and not just the linux community. That's because microsoft is hostile to everyone(and because they probably tried every operating systems and used them not just for few minutes), and their history is just about doing dirty tricks to lock users to their more or less inferior platform/applications, and to make migration hard or impossible. These are not paranoid fantasies, but based on facts. When direct3d was made, openGL existed already, but microsoft didn't want to use that as it is multiplatform, so they've made the inferior direct3d, and helped to spread it by money (paying to big game developers to use it instead of other 3D libraries.
Or see microsoft's own HTML "standard" for internet explorer 6, which served the total incompatibility with others, and locked the users to that browser for years, and made hard time for web developers. Or see the attempt to make and spread their own modified Java, the MS Java, which was like the IE6's html, targeting the incompatibility. It was ceased after Sun sued MS and made microsoft to copy the idea of Java, which lead to .NET and C# :) Or see their own document formats, that can be read perfectly, only by microsoft softwares. Or the attempt to make a windows locked "Flash", the silverlight, and this shows their unreliable directives. Few years ago they said "silverlight is the future, silverlight is the best", then few years later, boom "sorry guys the development of silverlight will be ceased, use HTML5 and javascript instead").
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