Re[8]: [PHP] A Guide to running Apache 2, PHP 4 & PHP 5 on Windows XP

Hi Greg, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 7:23:47 PM, you wrote: >> Viruses? God, that old bullshit ladened chestnut*. At least come up >> with some kind of valid OS argument, please. > 1. The virus and malware protection racket - M$ spent billions of > 2. Perpetual Upgrading - you can use Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Server Edition > 3. Bloat - 1.5+ hours to install Vista then finally you get to start > 4. Hostile treatment of customers - M$ is currently choosing to not > 5. Predatory Practices - How many companies have been eaten alive by > 6. .NET - proof M$ really wants to be a bank instead of a software > 7. IE7 - My transparent pngs are almost working, almost. Guess they Yay, some decent arguments! I don't deny any of them, I only take exception to being called an 'idiot' by yourself for the OS I have to use. You have no idea at all what I do for a living, what apps I need to run, what software I have to develop, and I'm afraid the area in which I work (games/movie industry) is not a Linux friendly one in the slightest. You see for all the upgrading wonders and angelic like behaviour of your OS creators, it doesn't count for shit if I can't use it for work, and there - as is probably the case for the vast majority of people stuck with Windows - is where the buck stops. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window"