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2006-11-03 05:22:09 PM
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Paul Nichols [TeamB] writes:
new EULA and I don't like it at all.
There are 3 points that specially scare me out:
- Having to buy Vista license again after just 2 hw changes (don't know
if major or minor). People say that end-users will be angry about this
but, does anyone in MS really think that governments and business
companies will agree to pay MS for this????
- Even worse, you have to agree that MS will be able to check what you
have installed. I don't think *any* company or government will agree to
this, as it is a door to security, privacy and legal problems.
- And worst of all, you do not agree to this, your version of Vista
begins to restrict access to its features.
I, for my part, will stay with XP, at least until this problem
disappears, if it ever does... :/
So will do my company. If this does not change we surely will change at
least our servers to Linux.
serious alternative for servers, I think it is still not mature enough
to be an alternative for the end user.
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Define "mature enough" for the end user. Which problems are there?
 

theo writes:
From our perspective it could mean one of the following..
Borland has been caught with their pants down regarding their Delphi
Linux stategy and gets a serious wake up call.
Microsoft will help Novell to get Mono compatible with .Net, this could
perhaps be the platform for the new Kylix IDE - based on the latest
BDS IDE?, but I do not see this as it potentially could destroy the MS
Windows desktop sales..
From what I read elsewhere everyone is also jumping because of Oracle
planning to release and support their own custom Linux distro - Another
major vendor supporting Linux directly. This hurts Red Hat and others of
course as well.
It could thus also mean that the big boys are wedging into Linux to grap
the market and suffocate the traditional Linux support companies.. I
would not be suprised if Microsoft comes out with a Linux distro/buys
out one of the distro vendors in the next year or two!
siegfried
 

SiegfriedN writes:
..
Novell to support SUSE Linux..
Never the less, almost all the big boys are now activly supporting Linux !
What I also read into this is that MS is keen to get into the Linux
market. They either do not have the resources to produce their own
distro or do not want to invest too much too soon i.e. just to have a
foot in the door at the moment. That can really be a scary scenarion is
if MS buys out Novell in the future..
'Wildly' it can also mean that they can't keep up with the fast pace
of OSS development especially in the virtualisation and cluster
computing (super computing). Is it a sign that the beast is slowly
coming to its knees on the server side of things?
siegfried
 

Guillem writes:
it's due to the fact that people who build their own PCs tend to change
hardware a lot, and are therefore an important source of information
about driver compatibilities and bugs for MS themselves, and that in
any case this was intended to prevent piracy, not stop legitimate users
from changing bits of hardware, or moving vista between machines.
Of course, cynics among us might well suspect that this is actually
an attempt at damage control, because the last thing they need is
even more bad pre-launch publicity to add to the uncommonly large
amount of negativity already surrounding Vista.
 

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Nathaniel L. Walker writes:
Linux?
Now that would be something ;-)
 

I wouldn't like Microsoft on my Linux machine
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Jennifer-Ashley schrieb:
 

theo writes:
end user does not know what Linux is or can offer, or if it is better or
not than Windows. As he/she does not know it, he/she will be scared of
using it (most of them at least).
We people of the IT industry tend to forget sometimes that they see a
computer as something that "does things". Generally speaking they don't
understand how or what is better or worse, and usually if they have any
problem they tend to ask "my-friend-that-know-a-lot-about-computers".
This does not apply to all non-expert users, but to most of them.
IMHO Linux needs a lot more publicity to convince them about its
goodness :)
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Daniel Rail writes:
You still got the problem with MS being able to check what you have
installed, though :(
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which probably won't happen) it would be a bonus to sell.
 

"J. Lee" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
happening by supporting Suse "just enough".
Dan
 

Uhm... Linux IS an OS Kernel.
- Nate.
"Eddie Shipman" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes

Not only that, but their distro would have a common desktop environment,
not 10 that you can choose to install at boot time. The software would all
look the same, the fonts would look better, it wouldn't be a horrible
resource
hog, and the software they produce would be compatible across /many/
versions. Also, Automatic Update features would be free, and not at
subscription price. I don't mind paying for a Linux distro, I do mind
paying
for Automatic Updates, when Windows has them for free.
- Nate.
"Tom" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes