Words for Microsoft Advocates
Written by admin on May 13, 2009
Get Out Of Bed
The aversion that Microsoft advocates and supporters show for Open Source software in general and for Mozilla in particular remains a constant source of amazement. It’s common sense to put new ideas and products through a period of test and evaluation, and Open Source software is rightly tested that way. In practice though, the wall of reactive resistance held up against Mozilla and other first-rank Open Source tools (like Open Office) is excessive to say the least. There is no rational reason for this behaviour at all.
The problem with Open Source for Microsoft believers is not that it is somehow fundamentally alien. The problem is rather that Open Source software is entirely similar to Microsoft software. Nowhere is this more obvious, or more uncomfortable, than in the apples-to-apples world of Web browsers. That example represents a fine example of the tortuous logic required by Microsoft advocates to preserve their positions.
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