O kalos, o kakos, kai o asxhmos.

[Christos Ricudis]

Th dekaetia tou '70, h IBM htan h kakia etairia pou ekleine ton kosmo se
proprietary lyseis (o,ti kserei h Microsoft tou shmera, to ema8e
meletwntas thn IBM tou tote). H kalh htan synh8ws h DEC. Th dekaetia tou
'80, h IBM eksakolou8ouse na einai kakia, kai to rolo ths kalhs to epaize
h Apple (exei endiaferon de to gegonos oti oi Apple fanatics oudepote
noiasthkan gia to closedness ths platformas tous - to megalo epixeirhma
tous htan h eyxrhstia, AKRIBWS to idio epixeirhma poy xrhsimopoiei shmera
h Microsoft).

H Microsoft de to epaize diporto, synergazomenh kai me tous kalous kai me
tous kakous. Ksafnika omws peripou thn epoxh twn Windows 3.1 h Microsoft
egine kakia, kai o kosmos perimene thn IBM pou pleon eixe ginei kalh kai
aga8h, na swsei ton kosmo me to OS/2 - me empros8ofylakh tou to OS/2 Team
(pou elaxista diefere apo to 'slashdot Linux' community shmera). O kosmos
bebaia oudepote sw8hke apo to OS/2, isws epeidh peripou tote o Linus
Torvalds ksanafere to Unix sth moda - kai mazi m'ayto kai thn ypoxrewsh na
analabei to rolo tou kalou gia na swsei ton kosmo apo thn kakia Microsoft.
H IBM, ws kalh pou einai fysika, mphke ki ayth kapoia stigmh sto paixnidi.

Prosekste oti teleytaia parathreitai mia strofh ths Microsoft h opoia
prospa8ei poly na poulhsei thn eikona ths "kalhs", oso ki an agkylwnetai
ston palio "kako" eayto ths. Nomizw oti kapoia stigmh 8a ta kataferei,
endexomenws se liga xronia na blepoume @microsoft.com commit logs ston
Linux kernel - opote logika einai kairos na psaksoume na broume tous
epomenous kakous tou mellontos - giati ti 8a apoginoume xwris barbarous?
Egw pshfizw google.

Isws bebaia kapoia stigmh enhlikiw8oume kai stamathsoume na blepoume th
biomhxania plhroforikhs me dipolikous orous kalou kai kakou. An kai den to
blepw...