Because I'm a software developer who writes for Windows. My livelihood and the Microsoft hegemony are intimately intertwined. Secondary considerations are that MS make the best (easiest to use, most fully-featured) development environments I've seen. Over the course of my career there have been many opportunities to jump to other OS's or development environments, eg Progress, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Java etc, but none of these has really delivered anything that beats MS in my opinion. Before I started coding with Visual Basic 3 back in 1994 I had been doomed to mainframe PL/1 work. Microsoft has been great for my career.
Even so, I wouldn't support MS as much as I do if I didn't like their products.
It wasn't always this way though. I used to love my old Amiga. Hated PC's when they first came along. I was disappointed that the PC won out over more innovative platforms, but that's business I guess.
I guess I just don't see all the bad things that MS is alleged to do. All I see is a company that is phenomenally good at competing in the marketplace, doing what any company would do in its position.
Frankly, if you're going to be an evil capitalist (and I do believe capitalism is evil), you may as well be good at it.
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Date: April 19th, 2002 02:04 am (UTC)From:Even so, I wouldn't support MS as much as I do if I didn't like their products.
It wasn't always this way though. I used to love my old Amiga. Hated PC's when they first came along. I was disappointed that the PC won out over more innovative platforms, but that's business I guess.
I guess I just don't see all the bad things that MS is alleged to do. All I see is a company that is phenomenally good at competing in the marketplace, doing what any company would do in its position.
Frankly, if you're going to be an evil capitalist (and I do believe capitalism is evil), you may as well be good at it.