Buy windows or go open-source?

[MCLINER]

Why not?

I hate Linux. It's not easy.

ya nt user-friendly

 

[Anusha]

whts earned hard is better..

It's the same thing with Windows. In Linux, you earn things the hard way by eating up your time. In Windows, you earn things the hard way by eating up hundreds of dollars. Same thing - hard earnings

 

[GNS]

Linux???

Think about XP, everything perfect and just 100/=

That's not forever.

 

[GNS]

It's the same thing with Windows. In Linux, you earn things the hard way by eating up your time. In Windows, you earn things the hard way by eating up hundreds of dollars. Same thing - hard earnings

 

[shanX]

dat wont last long tho

Huh, yeah they say so... said so... still saying.. will say so...

 

[rad]

Mee 2 bros and siss will go for open source.Why should we dance for evry thng that MS says?
Developing countries like our needs sme push!
Bt the only thing MS does is push our money to America!
So that V will sitll B developing and by the time they will be Rich and developped.

So DOWN GOES WINDOWS.and UPCOMES OPEN SOURCE !!!

I like the free world.

 

[Anusha]

Mee 2 bros and siss will go for open source.Why should we dance for evry thng that MS says?
Developing countries like our needs sme push!
Bt the only thing MS does is push our money to America!
So that V will sitll B developing and by the time they will be Rich and developped.

So DOWN GOES WINDOWS.and UPCOMES OPEN SOURCE !!!

I like the free world.

But do you like us to be treated like a poor country? I mean, there is a Windows Vista Starter Edition for the poor countries. Either you can buy it and save our money, or you cam buy a normal edition and say that we are not as poor as they think we are, or we can pirate them and stay unnoticed (don't say, go screw yourself Micro$oft, because we are the ones who are doing the wrong thing)

 

[lasanka]

buy windows

 

[lasanka]

But do you like us to be treated like a poor country? I mean, there is a Windows Vista Starter Edition for the poor countries. Either you can buy it and save our money, or you cam buy a normal edition and say that we are not as poor as they think we are, or we can pirate them and stay unnoticed (don't say, go screw yourself Micro$oft, because we are the ones who are doing the wrong thing)

logical...

 

[shanX]

But do you like us to be treated like a poor country? I mean, there is a Windows Vista Starter Edition for the poor countries. Either you can buy it and save our money, or you cam buy a normal edition and say that we are not as poor as they think we are, or we can pirate them and stay unnoticed (don't say, go screw yourself Micro$oft, because we are the ones who are doing the wrong thing)

Get rich or use pirated s/w

 

[lasanka]

hehe get rich ne? lolz

 

[Anusha]

hehe get rich ne? lolz

By selling pirated copies

 

[lasanka]

exactly!

 

[shanX]

hehe get rich ne? lolz

Yeah or try pirateds

 

[sri_lion]

I think we discussed this issue before!

Anyway the main selling point and the strong point in Windows was the user interface by doing so they slowly but surely became such a force and now dominating the world,

there is no way a normal user can survive in LINUX... that's for sure unless they adopt Window's tactics and make LINUX more user friendly... if they do it.. it wont be LINUX anymore would it?

Windows will domain for sometime to come at least another decade!!!

NOW!! which technology is more steady... is another issue!!!!

 

[Anusha]

NOW!! which technology is more steady... is another issue!!!!

What exactly do you mean by technology?

 

[sri_lion]

What exactly do you mean by technology?

Windows and LINUX

 

[Anusha]

Windows and LINUX

I get that. I mean, what sort of things in Windows and Linux?

 

[lasanka]

what sort of things

 

[sri_lion]

I get that. I mean, what sort of things in Windows and Linux?

Windows got more security flaws than LINUX..

This actually has 2 perspectives as I see it

1. The Problem in Architecture

In softwares like LINUX / UNIX there is a fine line drawn between the user levels and administrator levels, with compared to Windows.. What i mean is in Window anyone can run .exe/ .dll files that can contain malicious stuff.. but in Linux you'll have to be a root user to do this... so it makes the knowledgeable person does the rough handling... even in Windows they have admin/guest privileges guest's still can add programs that may has sort of .dll files or .exe that causes a system crash!!

Simple example is your Outlook & Thunderbird, Oulook is -you know who's technology- while Thunderbird is actually based on Linux mail clients!! And you google around to check about Outlook flaws "be my guest"!!!

I remember in some white paper I read Windows is known to more than 50,000 viruses world wide where as LINUX and UNIX is only in 2 digits!! Another reason for this is number of systems that's been connected through Windows!!


2. The number of people who uses it

This purely based on popularity take Outlook still large number of people using it because its bundled with Windows for free... and anyone who needs to test a spy ware attack would test with the software that most people uses!! To make it become more effective.... So in anybodies eye's Outlook is the target....

Where as very few people uses Linux and Unix systems, so why make your butt get torned for 2 cents?