[TriLUG] March 9 TNTUG meeting - Don't forget!

[Phillip Rhodes]

> The president of the LUG whom had asked me to do the present apologized 
> for the attitudes and I had guys that joked about how surprised they 
> were that I didnt have a lockup or a blue screen during my entire 
> Presentation which was done on Windows Server 2003.
> 

In all honesty, Windows has improved by leaps and bounds over the last 5 
or 6 years.  Win2K is really a whole different world from Win95 / Win 98
(or older).  Not that I like defending Windows... but honestly, I can 
say that with the newer versions of Windows, my main reasons for 
preferring Linux are more philosophical than technical.  Win2K is
a decent (not great, mind you.. but decent) OS in a lot of ways.

As much as we all like to pick on M$..  they DO have some damn
smart people working their, and Windows does have some technological
merits.

Still, I like advocating Linux (and will one day switch to using
Linux full-time myself) because I dislike MS's business practices (see:
Product Activation crap, exclusive vendor licensing deals, monopoly, 
etc.) and because the geek in me wants the source code to stuff I use... 
There's still some intertia keeping me using Windows a big chunk of the 
time (read: laziness) but I will make the switch eventually.


TTYL,


Phillip Rhodes



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