6 Reasons Y i hate Bill Gates

Hello ,

Like  many in the world the first operating system which i used was an MS WINDOWS 1998.Then later on i used WINDOWS XP . Though all of that which i used were pirated versions . When i got my first pc it came with a windows installation . I never knew of a GNU/Linux . I thought there was no operating system other than Microsoft . After sometime i got linux installed in my system it was in the year 2002 when i first worked in linux . It never did make any difference to me those days . When i started programming i faced lots of problem in my windows system . Lots of crashes and lots of inconsistency . I happen to read about the open source and its core philosophy . The very moment i knew that this was the future . After that i came to the point of associating every one whome i dont like with founder of MS .

Reasons being :

1)No freedom !

2)Forcing people to use inferior version of s/w

3) Poor support

4)High cost

5)Autonomy

Only good thing about MS is that the marketing it does is really good . Many say that for a layman windows is the best OS . Point is though it is little difficult to start but in the longer run every person from a layman to a programmer will realize the advantages of open source . It is so obvious that ONLY an open source product will be more reliable , stable . I believe open source is the concept which existed before all this copy right thing started . If there had been no open source we would not have had anything in this world . Even MS would not have existed if there had not been an open source concept . Because i believe in early days people got to know about OS only because it was not copyrighted . So the founder of MS who himself would have obviously been benefited from open source is the main threat to open source . A day will come when MS and all copy right laws will be out of this earth but open source will last forever . Because it is a philosophy in hearts of people and no company or government can ever take it away from us . Open source improves competition and quality of a product .

I am waiting for a day where in people will concentrate more on the quality and improvement of a s/w rather than the money !!!

I am waiting for a day where in people will think beyond their current needs .

I wrote this blog after an argument with another one of my colleagues .  Next to Christianity the philosophy which i will never forget or leave !

bye

~ by dineshabe on February 7, 2008.