On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:32:26 +0200 (CEST)
Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
> 
> > Note that I never started out to be a Linux crusader, nor did I think much
> > about the implications of "proprietary" software. It was only when I couldn't
> > get my machines to do what I wanted (things that they used to do without
> > complaint); then I started doing some research, which eventually led me to
> > Linux, then GNU/Linux free/libre, Richard Stallman, et al. The same with
> > systemd versus init: systemd messed up my system, that's why I didn't like
> > it. Later came the philosophy and politics of computers and software, and all
> > that other stuff.
> 
> my history is a bit a mix of yours and other motives. I started out 
> with MSDOS, then a non-MS variant of DOS (4DOS?), then Desqview, then 
> OS/2, then RedHat. I wanted to avoid MS entanglement. (never 
> even contemplated Apple.) MS felt too intrusive and the aesthetics 
> was distasteful. not that IBM is so great but OS/2 had a bit more a 
> sense you are not wards of the corporation, you had a somewhat freer 
> hand or so it felt to me then.

The punchline there is that OS/2 was written by Microsoft (under contract
from IBM).

Personally, I would be just as happy never to have to deal with Windows
again, but I'm forced to use a Windows 10 machine at work because one
of my occasional duties there is fixing old Excel macros (and washing my
hands thoroughly afterwards, because Visual Basic for Applications is a
disgusting excuse for a programming language).

E. Liddell