Reply #9: I agree [View All]

[Pobeka]

It is a complete joke that Diebold used Microsoft software, at all. The unix/linux folks can tell you many, many stories of how their software is soooo bad...

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How about the U.S. Navy test ship that was completely run by Microsoft software, fell completely dead in the water and had to be towed back to shore like the barge it had become?

How about the fact that the backbone of Microsoft's own mail system even a few years ago ran on unix? (Don't know if that's still the case).
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That being said, we all need to understand something -- there is only one reason Microsoft is so damn successful. They have a multi-billion dollar marketing machine. If you start picking on Microsoft too much in all of this, you will confront that machine which is able to persuade so called "professional" IT managers in big companies to use their crappy software. That machine will completely blow us out of the water when used on non-techs (like, say, judges, election officials etc.)

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