Comments on: Microsoft should ship MS-DOS N to Europe

By: eka

eka — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:23:09 +0000

http://www.apple.com/opensource/

By: eka

eka — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:11:18 +0000

Interesting that you deleted my last comment. It seems that you did not like the content … And this simply disqualifies you as non objective. But simply reading your website is enough to discover this.

By: ekla

ekla — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:59:24 +0000

And exactly this is the point, MacOSX is documented extremely well, to the core. And the complete basis of OSX

_is_ opensource ( http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ ), enabling developers to get a clear view on the OS

internals to develop their applications – fair competition, no chains.

The problem is, that the average user even does not have a choice what operating system he gets with a new PC. 98%(subjective value) of all PCs for personal use come with Windows(+Works +Word) preinstalled because it practically costs an OEM nothing. And since the vast majority of these people is not like you and me, technically interested with some years experience in IT, they are happy if this thing just works. These people have no choice because they usually do not know alternatives or fear changing something in their computers. These people are in focus.

I am more than happy that politics finally approches this problem early, even if it is just to get media attention and the problem into focus. I would be much more worried if there were no concerns.

And, if you buy a mac, you already made a choice, choosing something different.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:09:03 +0000

@ekla: What browser do you use on Windows? Let me guess. Firefox or Opera. Is that choice? What music player, iTunes? Choice?

Mac OS X is not open-source. It’s APIs may be better documented than Windows, but it certainly does not allow anyone to change the code.

By: ekla

ekla — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:43:45 +0000

Sorry, Mac OS X is a good positive-comparison. Most of the insides of Mac OS X are opensource and the overall unix-structure provides companies with every aspect of fully integrating their products into the system.

Microsoft, in contrast, was successfully sued many times for using this advantage for their products alone, leaving others to ‘hack’/reengineer protocols/interfaces.
Now the same happens again, but worse.

I want to have a choice.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:54:43 +0000

@ekla: Have a look at what an iMac comes with.

By: ekla

ekla — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:39:06 +0000

Your post is childish. You should really respect the decision of the EU. It’s good to see somebody at least trying to do something before it’s too late _again_ (Intenet Explorer / Windows Media Player / Office etc.pp).

There must indeed be a way for security companys to fully and completely integrate there products like MS is able to, and this is, afaik, not the case atm. This results in another market destroyed by Microsoft monopoly.

By: Karolis

Karolis — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:06:27 +0000

Long Zheng > yea, but if my company for example making another great media player or smth, and some people like it, but they know nothing about install/uninstall so they use WMP and this is not fair:(

By: Ely

Ely — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:00:47 +0000

LOL Ok this is funny but VERY true, the European Commission seems to be only interested in Microsoft’s money and not really in the consumer, come on look at Windows XP N no sales at all, yet they insist and persist why ah?.

By: Andy Wolf

Andy Wolf — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:14:37 +0000

EU is a good concept, but alas, poorly executed primarilly due to the morons that are given too much power to run the thing.. mainly EC.