Warning: You lose
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Normal as in majority, yes. Normal as in sane, no. Which is more important? Which is more powerful?
I think it's cultural difference. It remind me a scene from a famous Russian movile "Brother 2", when protagonis meet with American businessmen, and ask nim - "Tell me, American, where is the real power? I see, you think that power is in money. My brother think same. But I think the real power is in truth."
Same here. I don't even think about accounting userbase AKA money as something important in a question of control over your own property. :)
It absolutely does not matter how many people use Windows and how rich Microsoft. Windows is shit and there is many much better alternatives. Especially if you need an OS for business. It is very bad when you completely depend on the will of some corporation. Especially in business.
You don't need to write an OS from scratch. They are already written by people like us. What you need is to develop it further if something does not satisfy you.
No, you don't have to. Don't agree to do the job that demand using government-tracking and SaaS software. If you are not aware, those who know how to deal with free software have higher salaries. Imagine, even corporations don't like when other corporations have them on hook through software or hardware vendor lock. And in the future the salary difference will only grow.
He don't need to. Looks like we do that job perfectly. :) And about octopuses... I don't think octopuses have money changers and usurers who worship Satan among them (yet?) so, no need for God to send His Son as a last resort to bring that octopus tribe to their senses. :)
Yeah? Good luck getting my financial department to switch from QuickBooks to one of the open source alternatives…
It is just an administrative problem. You know, Microsoft cancelled their activity in Russia. Sanctions and all that stuff. Suddenly, financial departments of different businesses all over the country found out that they could do their job using opensource and domestic alternatives without any problems. Just like fingers click. There are still some MS "market share", but it is shrinking day by day.
Imagine, whole country suddenly clearly got that they just don't need any Microsoft shit for anything. Microsoft is useless. If most people will get that, that shitty Microsoft corporation will go bankrupt.
We can only hope. If this story about Windows 12 is true, I foresee several hundred million new *NIX and MacOS installs in the next five years.
MacOS is no way better than Windows, I would say it is even worse, and could not be installed easily on an arbitrary PC.
There are a lot of independent Linux distributions around. If your hardware is not very fresh, and you don't need to run recent games and office and browser is enough for you, then there are *BSD's, Haiku, even ReactOS if you wish.