Comments on: Defeats for Microsoft on the Web http://techrights.org/2011/11/18/commerce-server-and-big-data/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Michael http://techrights.org/2011/11/18/commerce-server-and-big-data/comment-page-1/#comment-131843 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:59:39 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=55803#comment-131843 What? Where did you get that?

Look at the desktop. Desktop Linux is free… not as in freedom (which, in the context of software most people do not care about) but in the context of no money. And yet it cannot gain a significant foothold. It is simply not a compelling argument – so the apologists blame MS and the OEMs and anyone they can.

In other areas such as the server room and embedded software it does very well. Linux based products have earned that. And that is good.

Celebrate that. Work toward making Linux based products better where they are weak. And stop blaming everything on MS and Apple.

Easy.

]]> By: Will http://techrights.org/2011/11/18/commerce-server-and-big-data/comment-page-1/#comment-131842 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:55:13 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=55803#comment-131842 Nope. Not evil. It’s just another admission that Microsoft software can seldom if ever compete with open source when there is a level playing field.

]]> By: Michael http://techrights.org/2011/11/18/commerce-server-and-big-data/comment-page-1/#comment-131835 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:33:07 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=55803#comment-131835 At the heart of the open source world is using other’s work and making it better if you need it.

Microsoft does the same thing.

And for that they are evil.

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