Comments on: Microsoft licenses going cheap http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6950 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6950/comment-page-1#comment-24412 Reader's Write Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:39:01 +0000 #comment-24412 The weakness of microsoft is as follows: (1) Does NOT respect the user, whereas GPL places NO restrictions on what the user can do with the software (as well as view code, make modifications, and publish -- -the 4 rights) (2) Insecure, slow, and extremely buggy --- Enough said (3) Expensive (4) Incompatible, 'forced-upgrades', non-functional. For me, I dislike MS for all the reasons above. If you find at least one of the reasons above repulsive, then I recommend using GNU/Linux. The weakness of microsoft is as follows:

(1) Does NOT respect the user, whereas GPL places NO restrictions on what the user can do with the software (as well as view code, make modifications, and publish — -the 4 rights)

(2) Insecure, slow, and extremely buggy — Enough said

(3) Expensive

(4) Incompatible, ‘forced-upgrades’, non-functional.

For me, I dislike MS for all the reasons above. If you find at least one of the reasons above repulsive, then I recommend using GNU/Linux.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6950/comment-page-1#comment-24286 Reader's Write Sat, 12 Nov 2005 01:16:55 +0000 #comment-24286 paying for anything from microsoft -what a strange concept! paying for anything from microsoft -what a strange concept!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6950/comment-page-1#comment-24278 Reader's Write Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:40:49 +0000 #comment-24278 paying for a microsoft license -what a strange concept! paying for a microsoft license -what a strange concept!

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