You believe that because a particular OS (Windows) has been very popular for a long time, that it's the only way to go. Uniformity is the common good, everyone should fall in line with the approved standard OS.
Gee, that sounds kinda Socialist.
You believe that alternatives are not worthy, simply because they're not the decreed official view.
Gee, that sounds pretty Socialist.
You believe that all who do not believe as you do are wrong-headed fools and zealots who deserve only scorn, and maybe they should be put away as crazies.
Gee, that sounds very Socialist.
You don't give credence to the idea that a variety of options is a good thing, or that individual choice is a good thing, or that upstarts may be able to contribute something of value to a free marketplace.
That sounds really Socialist.
Are you sure you're posting on the right site? We LIKE freedom of choice, alternatives, individual initiative, the idea that just because Big Government -- or Big Software -- is big, that it's necessarily right.
I seem to recall that at the time of the American Revolution, the majority of American colonists were in favor of continuing to live under British rule. Were they right to oppose American Independence from Britain? The way you knock everything except The Microsoft Party Line, I think maybe you do...
Or maybe you're really Steve Ballmer, and can't conceive of anything except Microsoft. Sometimes I wonder.
Well, I hope you're happy in your La La Land where everything with a Windows logo is perfect, and nothing else exists.
> ...the idea that just because Big Government -- or Big Software -- is big, that it's not necessarily right.
Doesn't matter, really, VDK... you're not persuaded by such arguments; you'll just dismiss me as another kook as you have in the past.
Well, every day, I use Windows 7 and Windows XP, three different flavors of Linux, one of Unix, and two versions of Mac OS X. Every day. At work and at home.
I LIKE freedom of choice. I like having alternatives that can address different problems better.
So please, do enjoy your sanctioned and approved version of Windows 8.1 in peace, I'll try not to trouble you with alternative thoughts again, difficult though it is.
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No.
Even the really lame attempt at associating Linux with conservatism fails to take into account that the fee market has rejected Linux as an viable alternative to Windows every year for the entire time it’s been around.
however it sounds very Utopian socialist when you look at the whole “M$” is evil trope that is central to the “free open source” movement.