Why you should not use any micro$oft products

for ethical reasons:
- freedom or power?
- the halloween documents. evil business practices reaveald from a microsoft engeneer.
- Philippe Queau: Eine ethische Vision der Informationsgesellschaft
  "Linux, die gegenwärtig einzige Alternative zum Ausbeutungssystem windows"
- unesco info ethics'98
- Philosophical Issues that Pertain to the GNU Project
- the penguin files
- Free Software and the Death of Copyright
- Texte von WOS-Vortragenden
- what's worng with copy protection
- response from peresn, rms, esr, linux, wall to craig mundie's attack on free software
- collection of links about intelectual property rights
- colaboration and ownership in the digital economy
- Open Source macht Entwicklungslaender unabhaengiger
- la-times about the risks of os-monocultures (funny)
- Bradley Kuhn from FSF on slashdot
- Coases Penguin
```
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of
servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your
arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you.
May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity
forget that you were our countrymen." 
      
-- Samuel Adams 
```
- Steve Adler: Preserving the Information Ecosystem
for technical reasons:
```
            The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server 
            service, which failed to start because of the
            following error:
            The operation completed successfully.
            --- Windows NT Server v3.51
           
```
- Ex-Microsoftie's accounts of Microsoft's infrastructure usage of different Unices. Interesting insider's perspective which reinforces what we've been thinking all along. For the most part, the company's money-making Web properties are all based around Unix, with Hotmail 99 being 99% FreeBSD, MSN using some Apache on Solaris, bCentral ad servers on 100% FreeBSD, and WebTV pretty much entirely Solaris. "Internally when Windows 2000 was announced, people were told not to even think about using it for production because it was too unstable," says the ex-Microsoft employee. read about it here
- the NT files: bugs & high profile failures
- Engineers Speak Out: Linux vs. Windows NT
- The best Windows File Server: Linux!
- Linux with Apache beats NT 4.0 with IIS, hands down
- demoroniser - Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML
- sun about w2k: The Straight Dope on W2K Sun believes the only place for 63,000 bugs is a rain forest.
for economic reasons:
for security reasons
ease of use:

The number one tool for windows NT remote administration is a car.
Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times. -- Microsoft-Internet Explorer README.TXT
- excellent comparison of NT small busness server with linux. (on basis of ease of use and cost)

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