Re: Truly Pathetic
From: Gerry Cornell (gcjc_at_tenretnitb.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:31:33 -0000
Ad
Monopoly = exclusive control of the market supply of a product or
service. Microsoft is a dominant player but does not have exclusive
control. The court actions a year or so ago were about stopping
Microsoft being able to gain exclusive control. From a consumer point of
view they need to be monitored to ensure that they do not gain exclusive
control. It is also desirable that other weaker players are able to
continue to provide competing services. The service from a dominant
player should be better., if the weaker players are encouraged to be
innovative thereby offering more competition.
-- Regards. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Ad" <graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk> wrote in message news:112648j1560881c@corp.supernews.com... > Leythos wrote: > >> >> >> It's no harder or easier for a non-technical person to Install Fedora >> Core >> 3 than it is for Windows XP. In fact, FC3 prompts you for what type >> of >> install you want, server, workstation, developer, which is something >> that >> XP Home/Prof doesn't do (and I really wish it did). > > But how many people would know what type they wanted? > Also installing software is not that easy, with so many different ways > to install software, it is confusing. > >> >> Sure, there are cases where I go back to XP - Visio has no equal, >> Visual >> Studio 200x .Net has no complement in Linux, even Dream Weaver MX has >> no >> Linux version, but most of the items that anyone would need are >> already >> included in the package. There are zillions of non-ms alternatives >> for >> free download too. Sure, you could base your business on a couple >> hard to >> replace programs, but you could also migration your business model to >> some over software in many cases and not have any real impact after >> the >> switch. >> > > Ok, I know it is not a business, but one of my hobbies is video and > video editing, I have seen nothing on linux which matches Adobe > Premier or any of the others on the Windows platform. A mate of mine > is a musicion and uses Soundforge, cakewalk 9 and Cooledit pro, once > again, nothing on Linux is that quality. > > So I will stand by what I said, there is no choice and Microsoft is > still a monopoly. > > >> Linux is FREE. You can download SUSE, Mandrake, and Fedora Core 3 for >> free >> right from the vendors/groups web sites. There are also single disk >> versions of Linux, but RedHat has made the closest Windows like >> version >> with all the GUI tools that actually work. >> > > I have downloaded a few free linux, but never got to grips with it. I > used them on the other computer. I doubt they will support this > computer. > >
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