Why an Anti-Microsoft page? Increasingly, I've noticed the good of such a page as this isn't inherently obvious to many people, so I'm forced to offer a rationale for this page's existence.

First, anything that is as wildly popular and dominant as Microsoft is needs to have naysayers in order to force the duck people into situations where they might have to think. It's also necessary to provide alternatives to those who don't want to just fall in line with the Insect God Profit, Microsoft.

Second, Microsoft's wild popularity and wide-spread use isn't based on anything noble, such as, the superiority of their product, but rather is often evidence of some of the worst aspects of human nature.

For example, Microsoft's business practices over the years have hardly been anything, but fair or honest. Microsoft more often ripped off good ideas from other people or bought a company out, than come up with real innovations of their own.

Also, the skyrocketing sales of products such as Windows 95 have more due to with the Rolling Stones & slick full-pages ads than anything such as technical superiority of the product. Micro$oft has successfully expounded the myth that there is a lack of any alternatives (how many vendors do you know of, off hand, that don't assume that you want either Windows 95 or Windows NT pre-loaded on your machine? I know of one and the the third alternative is MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows for Workgroups -- some choice). Often, this is not due to ignorance on the part of the software/hardware vendors, but rather is all part of a concerted effort to penalize those people who would demand a non-Microsoft product on their new machines. There are even reports that vendors such as Toshiba have stated that the loading of an operating system other than Windows 95 would void the hardware warranty!

I would say that the majority of end-users go along with the Microsoft juggernaut not because they have researched the literature and consequently concluded that Microsoft products best fulfill their computer needs, but instead what one hears is the lowing of the Nietzschian herd -- everyone else is doing it. They have bought into the lie that since Microsoft is the de facto "industry standard" if they buy non-MS products they will lose compatibility with the rest of the world. This is an ignorant view-point and ignores the fact that it's Microsoft's unwillingness to submit to industry standards (such as with HTML and Java) that leads to such incompatibilities.

I do understand that many people, when purchasing new computer systems, have little choice as to what software is loaded onto their machine. This is wrong, and flies in the face of the primary principle of a free-market capitalist system, namely, consumer choice. I also understand that many people like Microsoft's products, believing they are excellent (maybe even the best). We're all entitled to differing opinions. Read this stuff with an eye of skepticism and reply if you have anything to say. The more scathing the better.

• Microsoft® Hate Pages and Other Such Paraphenalia
• Join the fight to overthrow Microsoft's Internet Defiler: Download Netscape® Now!
  
• Join the The Anti-M$ Mailing List so you can stay "in the know."
• Various humorous articles of an Anti-Microsoft or anti-establishmentarian nature
• Digital Research - The Untold Story -- See how Digital screwed up a perfectly good OS.
• Find out why it's OK to have AMD or Cyrix inside at x86 Monthly Digest. This guy really doesn't like Intel, but then again, Intel doesn't like him, either.
• NEWS FLASH: The Microsoft corporate empire expands yet again. HoTMaiL, probably the best free web-based inbox e-mail service around, has sold itself to the Juggernaut.
• NT Case 41
• PC WEEK: Microsoft backtracks on ZAW for Windows 98
• MS security plugs not airtight
• Microsoft security flaws run deep
• Microshaft Corporation Home Page; Welcome to Microshaft
• Bill Gates Net Worth Page
• No Microsoft HTML!
• Boycott Microsoft - demand choice from hardware manufacturers. Don't give your money to Microsoft or buy their horse shit stories about lack of choice!

Graphical Interfaces

OS/2	OS/2 Warp vs. Windows 95: A decision maker's guide critiques Windows 95 and shows how OS/2 is a superior GUI operating system. OS2-Chantry Home Page - offers a veritable cornucopia of links to OS/2 related information on the Internet, including Web and FTP sites (with Shareware) and Usenet groups. Indelible Blue is a company specializing solely in OS/2 ready hardware and native OS/2 applications.
MacOS	MacOS Web by Apple -- Learn all about MacOS 8.

Text-Based DOSes

Free-DOS	Find out about The Free-DOS Project, a volunteer project dedicated to creating a completely freeware MS-DOS compatible operating system.
PC DOS	PC DOS is IBM's latest DOS offering. It sports numerous new features including increased available Conventional Memory and REXX support.
OpenDOS	Caldera's DR-DOS formerly known as Caldera OpenDOS, formerly known as Novell DOS, formerly known as Digital Research's DR-DOS. This OS has a long history and the latest version offers some unique features including a LongFileName beta patch and 286 DPMI support. The kernel source can be freely downloaded.

UNIXes

UNIX	The UNIX Home Page is maintained by the "keepers" of the #unix IRC channels. It has links to stuff you can download and a handy chart of DOS ===> UNIX commands.
Linux	Linux Organization - a not-for-profit group of linux-users whose goal is to centralize and organize communication between linux developers and users alike, as well as be a focal point for Linux information via FTP, Gopher, the World Wide Web.
FreeBSD	FreeBSD, Inc. provides access to all sorts of information about FreeBSD from introductory info. through available applications to mailing list archives. The BSD Daemon explains the concept of computer daemons and their relation to the underworld.
AIX	AIX is IBM's version of UNIX for RS6000 Workstations. It complies with Industry Standards, and it's Graphical Interface, the Common Development Environment, contributes to its ease of use.

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