Posted on 10/11/2006 8:45:51 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
Luckily, most of the PITA Windows work has been foisted on others. Those in charge also understand the downtime and cost associated with Windows, so it really doesn't hurt me. And now that I'm doing .NET 2.0, many of my development gripes are gone.
I had one guy like you, it tore him apart how great everything runs
I'm only torn apart when it doesn't run, when I suffer a practical inconvenience. I am not philosophical in my software, unlike you and your alter-ego Stallman. I also don't pay for the licenses and suffer their legalities, so the rights-taking issues with some proprietary licenses and the associated legal risks are borne by my employer, not me.
I think I have to explain the facts to you again. MA was about open formats, not open source. Microsoft was free to have a truly open document format of their own to compete with Sun's Open Document Format, the front-runner in the opinion of the MA officials. Alternatively, Microsoft was free to play in MA under the new policy using their proprietary software if they chose to do so by implementing ODF in MS Office.
Open source software only comes into the picture because due to its nature most open source software already supports open formats. This means it already complies with the mandate for open document formats.
If open source software starts replacing MS Office in MA, it will be because Microsoft decided not to work with an open document standard.
Another lesson we'll cover today: revisionist history is always written by the loser. The liberals in Mass originally were pushing open source, when that got shot down they retreated to open standards, which now may be shot down itself based on cost. Don't you ever get tired of defending all these leftists? As your posting history shows you're the energizer bunny of leftist theory, but with the name antiRepublic we at clearly saw it coming.
Even if that's true, it is not the subject at hand, which is the switch to an open document format, which you confused with a switch to open source software.
And one of these days you will maybe learn to read and spell my name right. Or is that prospect too taxing for your intelligence?
Did someone tell you it was 'free as in beer'? Or does it now bother you that using open software still requires skilled paid employees?
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