Ho ho! Just spotted Gertude the Wombat's post - popped in while I was writing.
I wouldn't take too much notice of Gertrude if I were you planecrazy - she's a Bill Gates fanboi troll who always emerges to badmouth Linux when the subject comes up.
Hey Gertrude, does it occur to you that poor old planecrazy is probably trying to install Solaris for SPARC on an x86 platform? No wonder the poor chap isn't having much luck!
(1) There's a fair chance it will actually work.
It works for most of the servers on the Internet and for millions of home users and businesses. Don't be so silly.
(2) If it doesn't work you've got someone to complain to.
Well, you can always join in a forum or send a bug-report to the author(s) - you've got a lot better chance of getting an answer than emailing Micro$haft - ROTFL!
(3) Programmers will continue to write new software, so you'll actually have some software to use.
Even sillier. New apps for Linux are being released a lot faster than new apps for Windows. At least the Linux APIs are free and open, which certainly isn't the case for MS. Bugs get fixed within days and released apps are regularly improved and updated. What planet are you living on?
"Some people seem to be incapable of understanding that programmers have mortgages to pay and children to feed just like anyone else - why should their work, uniquely, be expected to be given away for nothing???"
Plenty of programmers make a good living writing in-house Linux software for businesses or working for the big Linux houses. Some of the code is released under the GPL so that others can use it, improve it and pass it on. Some of them tinker with GNU or kernel code for fun. You are, as always, labouring under massive misapprehensions about open-source software.
Gertrude believes that there should be only one software company in the world, that will write all our apps., tell us what to do and what to think and collect all our money. I prefer to have my nose somewhere less odoriferous....
