@Uralbas You won't agree, but you really are. What an utterly stupid thing to say. And, by thing, I mean your entire post. The dominance of Windows, Office, and IE are in no way shape or form due to anything these days other than user preference. Linux has been around long enough, as has Mac OS, for users to be well aware of them. It's just like saying that AMD gets an unfair minority role in the market because Intel doesn't play by the rules. No. Intel has doubled its quality with every new generation of processors over the past 4 years, and AMD has increased by only half in that time. Intel has a better CPU, and, therefore, has the lion's share of the market.
Now, the difference here is that Google and Yahoo are the search leaders. If the two leaders form a pact, that is not the same as the 2nd and 3rd place players (Microsoft and Yahoo) forming a pact. That would be like Microsoft and Apple forming a pact to put the final nail in the Linux cofin. There would be countless posts of Linux advocates whining and crying about that. But, since this move is against Microsoft, everyone praises it as good? If there is one thing the tech industry DOESN'T need, it's that kind of thinking or behavior. Not EVERYTHING Microsoft does is evil, nor is it good. Similarly, not EVERYTHING an open source company does is good, just because they are open source. Canonical has its fair share of problems with Ubuntu. And, for all of thsoe who want to argue about the origins of Windows, and the whole being based on technology they "stole" from Apple, might I remind you that Ubuntu is based off of Debian, and that many of the popular Linux distros are based off of other ones, just like Mac OS is a shiny interface on top of a BSD? It isn't very hard to draw these comparisons. The problem is that people deny them because they don't help their own views on the subject. There are plenty more, but I won't waste the time putting ALL of them here, only to have you come up with some ridiculous rant which suggests I am wrong based on no hard evidence at all, or on evidence obtained from such unbias sites as wehatemicrosoft.com and ifmicrosoftcuredcancerwewouldstillhatethem.com
--Master Joe
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