Comments on: Free Downgrade? http://www.dave.ca/wp/2008/02/16/free-downgrade/ Sun, 23 May 2010 11:25:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Peter Endisch Jr http://www.dave.ca/wp/2008/02/16/free-downgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Peter Endisch Jr Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:51:01 +0000 http://www.dave.ca/wp/2008/02/16/free-downgrade/#comment-233 Indeed; people downgrading their OS...says a lot about the company behind it. Microsoft is too big, too greedy and is a victim of its own monopoly. There's nothing exciting that came out of Redmont in many years. There's a reason people are starting to eye the macs and linux, such as ubuntu as an alternative. With the huge improvements in the many linux distributions, it is prime and ready for many people. I personally have been using ubuntu for one year now on all my pcs and even my brand new dell xps m1330 - and although it hasn't been without some hickups (I'm more of a power user), the experience has been awesome and I have never looked back. Who wants to be in the grasp of monopoly? Who wants to endlessly have to upgrade their applications (it gets pricey too), just to be able to open files made with previous versions? I don't. Plus I don't enjoy the fact that my files are not truly mine, that I can only open it with microsoft products. With linux, you have none of that. You own everything you produce and the freedom is magnificent. It's computing as it was and as it should be. Indeed; people downgrading their OS…says a lot about the company behind it. Microsoft is too big, too greedy and is a victim of its own monopoly. There’s nothing exciting that came out of Redmont in many years.

There’s a reason people are starting to eye the macs and linux, such as ubuntu as an alternative. With the huge improvements in the many linux distributions, it is prime and ready for many people. I personally have been using ubuntu for one year now on all my pcs and even my brand new dell xps m1330 – and although it hasn’t been without some hickups (I’m more of a power user), the experience has been awesome and I have never looked back.

Who wants to be in the grasp of monopoly? Who wants to endlessly have to upgrade their applications (it gets pricey too), just to be able to open files made with previous versions? I don’t. Plus I don’t enjoy the fact that my files are not truly mine, that I can only open it with microsoft products.

With linux, you have none of that. You own everything you produce and the freedom is magnificent. It’s computing as it was and as it should be.

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