The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go bankrupt?

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 10:06, Christopher Chan wrote:
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>>> About bankrupcy: I hope that Microsoft will never go bankrupt. That
>>> would not be good for the economy and for the software ecology. I
>>> believe in a darwinian struggle for software: continuous improval to be
>>> better than the competition.
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>> Ha! Who needs Microsoft? Just looking into the Linux world you get
>> plenty of improvements due to competition. You get that just within the
>> Linux kernel. You get that in the desktop world. Whether Microsoft
>> exists or not, there will be no end to competition. What is really needed
>> is some good vision here and there and some good implementors supporting
>> those visions. I most certainly hope that Microsoft will go bankrupt thus
>> have a major resource sinkhole that does not really put out anything great
>> disappear.
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> Right... that's a very professional attitude.
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Oh, I am sorry I expressed my feelings about the tools available.

> Tell that to the thousands of Microsoft employees who get laid off because
> of the worldwide economical situation. Go ahead, scare them away from
> Linux with your attitude.
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I would have thought they would be glad to be free of the shackles that 
their bosses put on them. If they were really interested in what raising 
the bar. Not having to work around age old code, not having to implement 
consumer enslaving software (eg: scan every media file being copied in 
the initial release of Vista) and so on. It is not as if they are not 
welcome to Linux is it now?

Or perhaps you are more than happy to deal with all the crap that you 
get from installing, maintaining, and administrating Windows environments?
> It's people like you that give Linux a bad name.
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Why? What contributions has Microsoft made?