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On 2024-05-15, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2024 05:45:03 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On 14 May 2024 01:02:56 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 14 May 2024 00:42:29 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 14 May 2024 00:11:11 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> So, it would be beneficial to open-source developers to make sure
>>>>> that their software breaks easily and crashes, so as to sell the
>>>>> support.
>>>> 
>>>> Clearly you have never used the stuff.
>>>> 
>>>> No, actually, you are depending crucially on it right now, without
>>>> realizing it. Without Open Source, there would be no Internet.
>>> 
>>> We both know that's not true. Without open-source, there would have
>>> been an alternative based on UNIX or Windows.
>> 
>> Those alternatives existed, way back when. Before the Internet, there
>> were “online services” such as Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy and others.
>> Before the World-Wide Web came to dominate, and in competition with it,
>> there was Microsoft’s “Project Blackbird”, Quark’s “Immedia” and no
>> doubt something from Adobe as well.
>> 
>> (Are these names unfamiliar to you? Go look them up in the usual places.
>> There will be a test--if you want to continue this thread.)
>
> I am aware of them (I'm 45 years-old). In fact, Delphi Internet was my 
> first venture onto the Internet.
>
>>> Linux is chosen because it's good enough and free, not because it is
>>> necessarily better.
>> 
>> Open Source was better than all of those put together. That’s why it
>> wiped them out. Those proprietary products had the backing (financial,
>> marketing, technical) of some of the world’s biggest megacorporations of
>> the time, but they could not compete with Open Source and open
>> standards.
>
> Not on price, that's for sure. If I recall correctly, those proprietary 
> services also wanted to make sure that you remained exclusive to that 
> service. There was no benefit for them to allow you to venture outside of 
> their walled garden, since that would cause you to eventually look for a 
> cheaper service which still gave you access to things like Usenet, IRC and 
> the World Wide Web without needing to pass through their graphical 
> interface. That might be why their systems were primitive compared to the 
> Linux ones, based on UNIX, which resisted a user having any sort of 
> middleman.           

Microsoft could use their own server software for free on their Cloud. They 
don't. They use Linux for their servers. That's all you really need to know 
about the superiority of Linux for servers. I think Apple mostly gave up on 
the server market a few years back.

If you're using the Internet, you're using Linux.

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entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
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