Some of my reasons:
laxmanb | 09/24/07
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Nice try!
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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Big "if"
Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/24/07
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"IF ANYONE sold a product for Linux"
jacarter3 | 09/24/07
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VMware for Linux
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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And yet you wonder if anyone
jacarter3 | 09/24/07
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Huh?
Erik Engbrecht | 09/24/07
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I do buy linux
Hrothgar - PCLinuxOS User | 09/25/07
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VMware
JDThompson | 09/25/07
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Thinking about the comments to Point a.
DannyO_0x98 | 09/24/07
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Agreed - nice comment, thanks!
murph_z  | 09/24/07
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Kernel/Distro specifics
filker0 | 09/25/07
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Not really true
TripleII | 09/24/07
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Even MORE irritating on Windows forums
Bob.Kerns | 10/01/07
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Some thoughts
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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Platonic ideal of an operating system
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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Misdirection does not an OS make
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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Note my prior post's title.
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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Conflating operating systems and commercial products
DannyO_0x98 | 09/24/07
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"It is extremely well understood..."
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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Anton, what's up?
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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Opening possibilities
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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fair enough
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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Written like a true Microsoft Shill! Guess it's Profressor Gates now, heh?
nomorems | 09/24/07
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"Modern" Operating System?
filker0 | 09/25/07
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Not a function of the OS
voska | 09/24/07
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O rly?
Scrat | 09/24/07
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Kernel stability?
Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/24/07
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It is important to business
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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No different in any OS
filker0 | 09/25/07
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I don't care about offending WinFanBoyz
Chad_z | 09/24/07
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Ubuntu offends more than just WinFanBoyz
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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Linux Blindness
nhudd | 09/24/07
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I think I am qualified to rebut
TripleII | 09/24/07
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First off thanks for the link to the Linux games!
bka1959 | 09/24/07
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Next Tip
TripleII | 09/24/07
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On the Command line issue
voska | 09/25/07
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I agree
craptacular | 09/25/07
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I disagree with every point
voska | 09/24/07
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Not looking very hard
filker0 | 09/25/07
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Ok, now try and think of something that an
bka1959 | 09/25/07
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Functional illiteracy
benitodarder | 09/24/07
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Functional use
jacarter3 | 09/24/07
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Some good observations in the Comment...
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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Some reasonable points, lots of bad information
filker0 | 09/25/07
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Awesome
justthinking | 09/24/07
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Look at the posts for why Linux will never be
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/24/07
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And you are SO Wrong......
linux for me | 09/24/07
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Proof positive...
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/24/07
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hmm
Badgered | 09/24/07
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Support
uno@... | 09/24/07
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All that tells me is that
Michael Kelly | 09/24/07
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And yet, nothing improves
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/24/07
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Founding father.
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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You may be right...
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/24/07
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Reason for longevity.
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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You miss a whole segment
voska | 09/25/07
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Hmmm, tough one.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/07
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Good point
Anton Philidor | 09/25/07
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Most ignore him
voska | 09/25/07
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It has improved
Michael Kelly | 09/24/07
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I was speaking more about apps.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/24/07
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I found Open Office great
voska | 09/24/07
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Just to many things open office can't do
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/07
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So was I
Michael Kelly | 09/24/07
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I haven't seen it
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/07
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Feature and usability lack
psychicist | 09/25/07
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Two huge needs...
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/07
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Yeah -
murph_z | 09/24/07
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You also predicted SCO would win...
TripleII | 09/24/07
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Do try to stay on topic
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/24/07
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In other words,
Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/24/07
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I said so too..
murph_z | 09/24/07
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Accepted!
Sabz5150 | 09/24/07
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How can I say you were wrong
Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/24/07
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And yet you've been saying exactly that
murph_z | 09/24/07
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Murph?
Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/24/07
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In other *other* words
Sabz5150 | 09/24/07
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What maneuvers?
Michael Kelly | 09/24/07
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I guess you're right
Sabz5150 | 09/24/07
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Huh?
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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I knew that would happen
Sabz5150 | 09/24/07
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The Britsh? Dide, we kicked their
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/07
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And they came back and...
Anton Philidor | 09/25/07
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Dide?
nizuse | 09/25/07
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Boy...
Linux User 147560 | 09/24/07
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Yeah, you could call it that.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/07
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Corporate desktop doesn't matter
voska | 09/24/07
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OK, on topic
TripleII | 09/24/07
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In contrast,
Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/24/07
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Thanks No Ax
Roger Ramjet | 09/24/07
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Yeah we have to give NoAxe credit
nizuse | 09/25/07
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So now the entire world reads ZDNet?
nomorems | 09/24/07
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Good points
nizuse | 09/25/07
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Why they don't listen
voska | 09/25/07
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Its the marketplace stupid ...
George Mitchell | 09/24/07
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Marketplace is where merchandise bought and sold.
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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Follow the $s
TripleII | 09/24/07
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For the US OEMs...
Anton Philidor | 09/24/07
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The marketplace that matters is the institutional market ...
George Mitchell | 09/24/07
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While "institutions" continue
Anton Philidor | 09/25/07
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Anachronism? You're not seeing the whole picture?
George Mitchell | 09/25/07
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And Dell started selling Linux on its Notebooks/Desktops just for grins???
padapa | 09/24/07
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Windows , "Just Works" ?
toadlife | 09/24/07
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Can you elaborate?
TripleII | 09/24/07
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Simplicity == complexity
toadlife | 09/25/07
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Gotcha.
TripleII | 09/25/07
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#8 - it's not worth the $100-200 savings for the OS.
Spats30 | 09/24/07
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Penny Wise...
TripleII | 09/24/07
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$100K + $200K savings speak for themselves
TripleII | 09/24/07
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Agreed: support and usage costs count far more than capital cost
murph_z | 09/24/07
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You ignore the cost of support
Richard Flude | 09/24/07
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I say the opposite
voska | 09/25/07
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Linux takes just as long to learn as MS Vista.
nomorems | 09/24/07
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Same problem with Vista
voska | 09/25/07
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Linux
rmoney@... | 09/25/07
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Really odd hardware?
filker0 | 09/25/07
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Why won't Linux compete with windows
gas5812@... | 09/25/07
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RE: Re:
jeffmate1 | 08/25/08
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Gates and Jobs
deanders | 10/07/08
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