Subj : Re: Open Source Leaving Microsoft Sitting on the Fence?
To   : comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
From : check
Date : Sat Jul 24 2004 11:59 pm

steve_schefter@hotmail.com (Steve Schefter) writes:

> That's not quite the point that Peter seemed to be making.  He wasn't
> complaining that you could choose A versus B versus C to to fulfill
> requirement Z.  Instead, he was complaining that A version 2 was
> incompatible with A version 1.  And that A.redhat is quite different
> from A.suse.
>
 
Next thing we'll be complaining that a '73 Ford gearbox won't fit on
a '97 Ford. Or even that a Mercedes door won't fit properly in a
Chev.

We don't mind variety in vehicles, so why is variety in software
so frightening to some people? It's possibly due to the MSFT
attitude that 'one size fits all' which has been the paradigm for
nearly 20 years, and which most people now see as the norm.

Jack
-- 
Once, they feared you. Then they matched you. Now they are
laughing at you. Soon they will ignore you. You have lost.

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