Linux Faithful Unfazed By Vista

Among a zillion reasons not to use Microsoft products, including its latest OS release Thursday with Vista, here are some more reasons. From a recent article on Red Herring, among the biggest goofs Microsoft has once again pulled off…

But some of the rejection of Vista is because it locks up customers, once again, into proprietary software that is expensive, Mr. Perens said. Vista is also trying lock up users with digital rights management, which will prevent the software from sharing video and music. “Unfortunately, this is very anti-customer technology,” Mr. Perens said.

Aside from its expensive price point ($200-$400) and out-of-the-box technical defects, there’s the philosophical side to this. Consumer democracy will do to Microsoft, the obviously dominant software behemoth, the same that it’s done to other dynasties in the past. Eventually more people will turn to Mac, Linux, or whatever future alternative is presented to the status-quo.

It’s technolution… the inevitable shift of preference, perspective, possibilities and priorities in the modern realms of computer usage.