I have a friend who receives Michael's Minute from Lindows.com. He is a .Net developer (for about 1-2 years) who at one point was very interested in the whole *nix world. I think he now watches this stuff just to remember how the other half lives.
In the latest article Michael (the CEO of Lindows) bemoans the fact that essentially Microsoft is forcing him to change his product's name. My friend emailed the article to me and a couple other friends, but introduced the article with these (very funny) comments:
The Microsoft machine crushes yet another spec-of-dust competitor. Lindows
is changing its name, not because of any court decision in this particular
country (the U.S.) but rather because of mounting legal costs in Europe.
Do I care? Am I outraged? Not really. I just want there to be more Linux
heads and Java programmers in the world, toiling away in the wasteland of
bad development tools --- so all the cushy .NET jobs can be mine.
How can we encourage more college graduates to pursue Java? I'm thinking
about setting up a blog or a site to mislead the masses. What do you think?
Who's with me!?
Now I don't agree with all the comments (I have to use Java on the Mac OS X project I have), but they really are funny!
So in light of this (I want to give back to the community)...
If you are a college student working with Microsoft .Net technologies then listen to me! I know what I'm talking about... Windows is dead! .Net, C#, and VB are junk! Use PHP or Perl or Python and only do so on Linux...
Before you flame me, please understand that my first real experience with Linux came because I was making a technological suggestion to my supervisors only to be blindsided by the System Administrator who was a stark-raving Linux fanatic! Months later I came across an article that encouraged Linux fans to bash Microsoft people (and their ideas) at every chance because the pro-Microsoft people are the enemy. (At this point I realized what had happened to me... Needless to say I keep arguments against Linux available -- just in case)