Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista
Alias wrote:
> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:g6ngqo$rqf$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>>> uwe wrote:
>>>> I'm a software developer writing XP/Vista applications for the
>>>> consumer market. If I put a year's worth of work into an
>>>> application, I have a potential market of about 90% of desktops
>>>> worldwide at best. Now, if I would waste my time to write desktop
>>>> (!) applications for LINUX, how many potential customers worldwide,
>>>> who are actually willing to pay for my work, would I have?
>>>> Exactly... ;-) And BTW: I've seen those hardcore LINUX fans howling
>>>> when Borland released Kylix a few years ago; complaining that a
>>>> commercial product should not attempt to break into the LINUX world.
>>>> Big chance missed, folks.
>>>>
>>>> Uwe
>>> So don't use Linux and keep writing for the sinking Microsoft ship.
>>> It's your future. Saddle makers, blacksmiths, et al weren't too happy
>>> about the advent of the car either.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>> As much as you Hate Microsoft, Microsoft will be around longer than
>> you or I. Get use to it.
>>
>
> That's what everyone once said about Enron. I don't hate MS. I feel
> sorry for those people like Ewe who have their entire futures tied up to
> a sinking ship.
>
> Alias
BTW, my own personal "ship" was sunk years ago.
Now I've resigned myself to making others miserable.