[MadPenguin]

Not to give the Linux-Window$ debate more weight than it deserves...

I look at Window$ as the Dimocrats. As do the Dims, Redmond tells the sheeple what's good for them, what they can do, and even how they can use the software. (Read an M$ license agreement lately?)

Linux can be looked at as the Republicans. The power is in the hands of the user. You have complete control of your own system and you don't have to pay ever increasing license fess (read: taxes) for something that doesn't work the way it should.

With Linux, if something doesn't work right, someone fixes it or figures out a better way to get the job done. In Window$, they simply build on to the same bad design. (Sound like the way the Dims refuse to truly fix the public school system and refuse to try new ways to address the problem?)

The great OS debate isn't religious and shouldn't be political; although, we can learn some lessons from it. Just my 2 cents.

FMCDH

[thisiskubrick]

Linux can be looked at as the Republicans. The power is in the hands of the user. You have complete control of your own system and you don't have to pay ever increasing license fess (read: taxes) for something that doesn't work the way it should.

Interesting statement. I think that most of the Linux developers work at government funded Universities, schools, etc. (Yes some are at IBM and other big companies).

I briefly considered the Gnu Public License for my sofware. Then I laughed myself silly and decided to make money instead. I'm a small business developing an app, and I'd like to sell it, instead of giving away the store with the GPL.

But I'm not religious/political about the Linux vs MS debate, they are two approaches for different environments..

Stan Kubrick

[mdmathis6]

Oh my, the Linux crowd sees themselves as anti-corporate Robin hoods out to give people power, more Libertarian, more Green really. You've just insulted much of the open source movement..consider your PC hacked and your credit destroyed...LOL LOL.