[usgator]

Thanks for the post. I am a software developer myself and don't deal with the OS too much.

This should give me some ammo next time we get into another "Linux vs. Microsoft" discussion.

Of course, it won't make any difference. They love and worship Linux and facts have no place in the discussion.

The thing that amazes me is that I admit MS has faults ... they adamantly refuse to acccept that Linux may have any flaw at all, no matter how minor.

[StJacques]

". . . The thing that amazes me is that I admit MS has faults ... they adamantly refuse to acccept that Linux may have any flaw at all, no matter how minor."

Yes, Microsoft does have faults. They have a poor history of getting new APIs right on the first try. I admit that outright.

What bothers me so much about the anti-Microsoft crowd is that they are completely deaf to the costs businesses incur when forced to operate within an environment of "limited data access." On some occasions, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars for some relatively simple work that requires extensive repetition. This has enormous economic and social costs for America. Don't they get it? If it's less expensive to do software applications that run across the internet that more will get done and that as more are put in place that jobs, productivity, and economic efficiency are enhanced?

It is so obvious to me that I get a little pedantic when discussing it at times.

[antiRepublicrat]

They love and worship Linux and facts have no place in the discussion.

You can see the same thing here on the Microsoft side from Kwazy.