I got one thing to say about the one who wrote that article: wintroll.
M$ is really big and popular, NO-ONE can deny this. Do you think it's so easy to beat a company like that? A company whose influence in everything is above average? Do you think that people will just migrate from Windows to some other decent OS just like that? No they won't. Nothing of that will happen anytime soon; none of the above will happen quickly. You can't just beat M$ in one day with one product. Many people believe in M$, are M$ addicts; they don't know that there are people NOT using M$ products. That's because of M$'s influence and ads.
No Java can't just beat M$ by itself. People can't just migrate from one language to the other, from one OS to the other. It's not Sun's fault. But it's also not M$'s fault. It the public's fault. They fail to seek alternatives. They think that windows is the sole OS out there. Some of them don't KNOW what an OS is. People like them can't migrate and never will. They can stay to M$.
And about C#. The article writer is exagerating; way more than normal. C# isn't so popular. I'd advise you guys (and the article writer) to go on some newsgroups and see C# criticisms. It's not just me saying it... I believe the article writer only goes to windows newsgroups (if he goes anyway). Of COURSE he'll see a big part of the people using that newsgroup being C# fans. But no... Even though people programming for windows are indeed more than the people programming for other OSs, the number of people programming in C# is small. It's the stats saying it. Yeah you might say "C# is new" and stuff, but that's a silly argument. If something is *GOOD* it becomes popular, not dominant though, within the month it's released. M$ was the company to first release a GUI. That's why it's so popular. But was it the first company to think of making a GUI for their OS? No... M$ stole the idea from Apple, which delayed the release date of their OS which resulted in Windows becoming the dominant OS. Apple itself stole the idea from Xerox. So does the fact that Windows was the first published OS with a GUI, mean that Windows is the best one? No. M$ hurried to release Windows which resulted in bugs and errors in their OS. But they got what they wanted.
Now M$ has achieved a monopoly in the PC market, which IS hard to break.
One is clearly the winner. Does it matter how they won? Not really. Can Microsoft remain the 'winner' in the market place forever? In line with what is mentioned on the site I quoted here, it all comes down to whether YOU are going to sit in your corner and muckrake the big bloke or come out of the corner and defeat him with a better product.
Despite you, it's also up to the public. No M$ will not remain the winner forever. Everything has a beginning, but everything has an end as well. That end, however, is quite some time from now. People change, habits change, likes and dislikes change. None of that changes fast enough though.
If you think there is a problem then be a part of the solution instead of crying about it.
This is indeed one of the best quotes ever. No sarcasm is meant. And be sure that no-one just sits and cries about M$ being the ruler. They all do what they can. And as I said some times above, things will change; not soon though.
PS. I could say a lot more things but I could not remember all of them while writing my other thoughts. I think I have stated my opinion.
!!! NOW !!!
This talk is absolutely off topic in this thread, so let's stop it. There's no point arguing about this kinda stuff in an IRC discussion forum. I have made my mind, my project will be written on C++. If someone wishes to write it in a different language then do so. I have no objection. I wish you the best of luck if you decide to do so.
Take care everyone,
- cmad
