Open source software group files complaint against Microsoft

I wonder if these guys are just picking on MS because its MS. Surely you cant install another OS "easily" on iPhones either?
 
these guys are a joke, although i hate windows8 too
 
elvis_presley said:
Damn you, Microsoft! 2013 was the year of Linux on the desktop, and now you've killed that dream!
Click to expand...

That saying is so ironic its actually scary. Everyone is focused on the desktop and meanwhile in the background Linux took over almost everything. From routers to servers and phones.

What I also always find funny is when someone says Linux is to difficult for normal people and in the same time plug out his Android phone (running Linux) and surf the net via the Wifi and routers (running Linux) to update his Facebook profile on a web server (running Linux)
 
AlphaJohn said:
That saying is so ironic its actually scary. Everyone is focused on the desktop and meanwhile in the background Linux took over almost everything. From routers to servers and phones.

What I also always find funny is when someone says Linux is to difficult for normal people and in the same time plug out his Android phone (running Linux) and surf the net via the Wifi and routers (running Linux) to update his Facebook profile on a web server (running Linux)
Click to expand...

Well yes, Microsoft would have charged. If it was the other way round everyone would be running Microsoft but then Microsoft wouldn't be as well supported either.
 
Fudzy said:
Well yes, Microsoft would have charged. If it was the other way round everyone would be running Microsoft but then Microsoft wouldn't be as well supported either.
Click to expand...

You mean if Linux was called MSFT and MSFT was called Linux? :wtf:
 
I have really come to appreciate the saying that Free Software is 'Free as in Free Speech.'

Consider MS licensing in a business:

You must buy a license for each of your Windows client PC's
You must buy a license for each of your Windows Servers
You must by another license for your Windows PC to work with your Windows Server
Your Office productivity software is another license per user and depending on what type of license it is, you may or may not be able to move it from one pc to another or install it on a terminal server (the ones you can cost more.)
You buy another license for you email server plus another license for each email client (even if they already have a Windows OS and bought the Outlook email client as part of the Office package)
You need to buy another license for someone to use their Windows PC to connect to a Windows Server via terminal services
You need to pay extra to be entitled to 'Free' upgrades for 2 years.
If you contact MS for support, it will probably be to work out what licensing you need to do whatever you want to do.

Compare to Linux and open source equivilents. Even if you think the MS software is functionally better, at least with the FOSS, you are free to use it in the way you want without getting hammered for 'added extras' and that is something worth standing up for.
 
inferno said:
I wonder if these guys are just picking on MS because its MS. Surely you cant install another OS "easily" on iPhones either?
Click to expand...
The difference is Apple manufacture iPhones. Microsoft are trying to get other companies that manufacture PCs to make it difficult to install anything other than Windows.
 
InvisibleJim said:
I have really come to appreciate the saying that Free Software is 'Free as in Free Speech.'

Consider MS licensing in a business:

You must buy a license for each of your Windows client PC's
You must buy a license for each of your Windows Servers
You must by another license for your Windows PC to work with your Windows Server
Your Office productivity software is another license per user and depending on what type of license it is, you may or may not be able to move it from one pc to another or install it on a terminal server (the ones you can cost more.)
You buy another license for you email server plus another license for each email client (even if they already have a Windows OS and bought the Outlook email client as part of the Office package)
You need to buy another license for someone to use their Windows PC to connect to a Windows Server via terminal services
You need to pay extra to be entitled to 'Free' upgrades for 2 years.
If you contact MS for support, it will probably be to work out what licensing you need to do whatever you want to do.

Compare to Linux and open source equivilents. Even if you think the MS software is functionally better, at least with the FOSS, you are free to use it in the way you want without getting hammered for 'added extras' and that is something worth standing up for.
Click to expand...

Also a side note:
Microsoft licence only grant you the permission to USE the software, in no way do you ever OWN it. Oh and wait for the new Windows Blue Model, where you will be paying for updates as well :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X