XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-08-13 4:24 p.m., Tyrone wrote:   
   > On Aug 13, 2025 at 3:58:34 PM EDT, ""Joel W. Crump""    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/13/25 3:55 PM, Tyrone wrote:   
   >>> On Aug 12, 2025 at 10:52:57 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"    
   ldo@nz.invalid>   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:25:55 +0000, Tyrone wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Microsoft has never been in better shape in its entire 47 year   
   >>>>> history.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yes, they have tried to sell stupid products that failed. But they   
   >>>>> are laughing all the way to the bank every day.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Always interesting, isn’t it, when someone defends the state of a   
   company   
   >>>> by trying to point out how profitable it is (i.e. how much money it is   
   >>>> able to take off customers), rather than how good its products are (i.e.   
   >>>> how useful those products are to the customers) ...   
   >>>   
   >>> Always interesting, isn't it, when someone attacks a company by trying to   
   >>> point out that being successful is a bad thing.   
   >>>   
   >>> Many people MUST find the products useful, else why would Microsoft be   
   making   
   >>> so much money? In fact, Microsoft is now the second $4 trillion company in   
   the   
   >>> world.  NVIDIA was the first.  Is NVIDIA evil also?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> M$ keeps making money because people feel they have no choice but to use   
   >> Winblows.  This is why Apple stays in the game, some suckers who can't   
   >> stand Windows support them instead.  Lucky people, who have   
   >> comprehension of computers, can use Linux, and be free as in freedom of   
   >> either of the corporate world's platforms.   
   >   
   > Windows is not even a blip on Microsoft revenue today. "People" don't   
   > personally use Windows at home much these days.  Phones and iPads take care   
   of   
   > that.   
   >   
   > Businesses use it because vast amounts of business software run only on   
   > Windows. That is changing, as now even where I work Macs and iPads can be   
   > chosen instead of a Windows laptop.   
   >   
   > People who have "comprehension of computers" are a VERY small minority of the   
   > general population.  OTOH, I have been using/programming/fixing computers   
   > since around 1980. Linux does not appeal to me at all. I don't give a damn   
   > about "software freedom". Linux just does not run what I want to run.  I   
   don't   
   > buy computers/phones/iPads to run Operating Systems.   
      
   That last sentence is probably one that I'll tell myself in the future   
   when I decide, once again, to give Linux a try. It's not bad, and I can   
   pretty much get everything I need running under it, but the faggots   
   calling the shots now disgust me ever more every day.   
      
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