BillinDetroit wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:


It's
like Windows. Ordinary consumers are stuck under Microsoft's thumb,
but Window's dominance was stopped before it reached the corporate
server market level.

You mean that Linux ceased to exist? I must have missed another
memo. I'm sorry, but nobody is forcing you to use Windows. If you
can't find an alternative, it's because you aren't looking very
hard, same as for fasteners.


Having already paid for it, so long as Windows works 'well enough'
(tm), there is little incentive to just pitch it and try something
else.

Most people don't care whether they already paid for it. What matters
is that it's on the machine and works well enough so why mess with
anything else.

I've been a Linux user for several (10+) years. But I've never pulled
Windows off a machine before it fell apart on its own.

Nor have I ever re-installed it. Ain't happenin' Jack.

I've managed Unix shops and Windows shops and don't see a lot to choose
between them.

I don't let what came on the machine influence how I use it--I generally
ditch the bundled OS regardless, if there is a bundled OS.

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