Re: Micro$oft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

>Leroy H <[email protected]>wrote:
>>Micro$oft is such a great OS that they've always needed sabotage
>and bribery to succeed:
>
><https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/>
>
>
>GNU/Linux, in sharp contrast, blazes forever forward ahead with superior
>quality.

Yes I have run win 3.1 on top of DRDOS, with trumpet winsock for internet.

But moved to Linux with SLS, Soft Landing Systems around 1992
 https://itsfoss.com/earliest-linux-distros/

Used and tried many distros.


I have read that these days Microsoft has shares in hardware companies
and making ever more bloated software forces people to buy ever more powerful hardware...

All about dollars..

I am posting this from a Raspberry Pi 4 8 GB with a 4 TB Toshibaba harddisc connected.
Nothing I cannot do
raspberrypi: ~ # uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 5.15.32-v7l+ #1538 SMP Thu Mar 31 19:39:41 BST 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux

2022 ? what's new?
I think it is running Debian
If I need something I write the code and open source it:
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/download.html

Many times you need no OS at all, just a micro and some asm:
 https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/pic/index.html

But you need to understand the hardware AND the problem you want to solve, or thing you want to do,

Am developing some precision software on this Raspberry last few days... no problems.
Internet connection via a Huawei 4G USB modem, radio and RF stuff via RTL_SDR USB sticks.
Audio, video too...

gcc a very nice C compiler.

Who needs Microsoft? I do not need it, and with US listening in / having a say in it, it is probably a security risk.