Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: It's funny. Dimdows users are forced to confront and accept Microsoft's ignorance. Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:12:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e114a577b81d0eff5431452080854aaa"; logging-data="814062"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+c9F+5RGsGXVNqxsUHqZR/" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+blRC7L3c2KMSpGSN7dcsOt17n0= Bytes: 1301 On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:00:28 -0400, Joel wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>Why don’t they just switch to Open Source? > > Commercial software is the default. “Commercial” does not preclude “Open Source”.