[Leaplist] Re: Microsoft Suggest Linux Hotmail Users Use Outlook Express (long)

[Sun State Martial Arts]

Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Saturday 26 January 2008 16:16, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> It's a load of non-sense.  Microsoft has built their entire distribution
>> control on the basis that people will upgrade everything every 2-3
>> years.  That works for home consumers.  That does not work for
>> corporations who need at least 3-5 years.  And it definitely does _not_
>> for the traditional professions -- engineering, law, medicine -- where
>> not just document retention, but document revisioning is required for 10
>> or more years.
>>     
>
> That's why I don't care for Microsoft products.  I want to own my data.  I 
> don't want to be constantly looking over my shoulder.  It's not ideology, 
> just pragmatism.
>
>   
playing the devils advocate on this one.  unless you program the 
application that creates the data, it is not your data.  just being an 
ass on that point.  now the difference with MS product lock in vs FOSS 
is that the license are different and thus allow you to do things each 
to their own.

the MS license gives you use, but you are screwed when MS chooses to 
change things without providing legacy maintenance.

with FOSS you can choose to keep the older code and the older "data" 
created with that code and not be as locked into a corp. desire to 
change things to make money by forcing users to upgrade.

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