Thats funny,
What does FOSS do that is what you would consider different ?
Come in with low prices and high TCO ?
And news flash, if you pick a specific vendor for your services you are LOCKED-IN. That applies to anyone, If you agree to use a companies products or services for the duration of your agreement you are locked in.
If I buy a honda car, am I locked-in to honda's ? well yes I am until I decide I want something else.
Get over it, What would you rather, A single vendor ? so there is no consumer choice ? and no vendor competition ?
Yea, that would be good (but only for that single vendor), so now various companies are offering alternatives and CHOICE for consumers, and you whine about it.
If companies do not offer that choice, you go after the companies that do provide that product or service and call them a monopoly.
Which ofcourse it totally wrong, as you well know, even MS is not a monopoly, you can start up your own company and compete with them in the market. Many do, some even successfully.
But if you have ONLY ONE VENDOR, there is NO consumer choice, it is a monopoly. So decide what you want, choice ? or no choice.
No one will force you to use MS's products, and there are alternatives for you to choose from.. Isn't it a great world.
Thankfully people ignore trolls like "linux geek", except as an indication of the rabid fanboy, zealot type you inspire with your 'cause'.
Linux geek if you could develop code and write applications half as good as you can troll ZD then you might one day actually improve its standing instead of making Linux types look like crazies !!.. Just an idea.. up to you..
