I agree Linux is “as bad” or “as good” like Windows. And i do not believe Open Source is a good reason. The majority of us will never GO INSIDE the code. We have no time. What we want is a OS that works OK. Where i use a Windows Server, as a server, i have not had problems. My usual problems with Windows Servers are in small installations where somebody loads other software. Actually i think this is the part where Linux is “better”. Nobody try to install nothing in a Linux Box, many people will install things on Windows. But it is not a Windows-Linux difference, it is more a “user education”.

And talking about Linux versus Windows, many people forget that Linux (better GNU) was born as opposite as PROPRIETARY UNIX (SCO,AIX,etc). They made a good job putting the market in a more afordable position (i remember how much TCP/IP or a C Compiler or NFS costed in SCO), but we cannot forget that Microsoft has made a very good job in making computers and computer software afordable also. I remember NOVELL. Their prices, etc.. Now they have “discovered” Linux, when they lose the OS war.

Many people says Windows is very bad. I disagree. I think they have a problem, as Pick had many years ago and we pay for it now. It is very easy to write windows software, good software and bad software and very bad software. My experience says that usually the windows problems arrive installing other software. As with Pick, it was very easy to write BAD software in Pick. Now the image is that Pick is bad, obsolete, etc.. The reality is very different.

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