I had taken down this post on threat of my previous web host, but after the emails & chats with a lot of people who said that this post was in no way harming the Web Host or his company & now that I have moved to a nicer host, I have decided to bring this post back up.
The Microsoft vs Linux debate is a long drawn battle, a battle which has been going on since ages and will continue to do so. At online forums you find a lot members fighting each other. I am a member at such a forum, where Microsoft Windows vs OSS is a very emotional issue, a very touchy issue, let’s say something like caste based reservations in India, people will get down to rioting on it.
Recently a heated discussion was going on (on the same issue) when 1 member (Windows supporter) let out his frustration in a post of his and chose very decorative words (he deleted his post immediately, though was a little late in doing so) He was a little late as one of the OSS supporters he used flowery language for was able to quote him. Ironically this OSS supporter turned out to be the web hosting provider for the Windows supporter.
Reading the flowery language the OSS supporter was outraged and threatened the Windows guy that he will be suspending his hosting for 2 days. Yup, you read that right. He publicly threatened this guy that he will be suspending his site for 2 days for using the flowery language, apparently sighting a clause in his TOS that says that one cannot curse or abuse an employee or the company.
Now, he may be right or wrong, rational or irrational. The point is that, a lot of these OSS supporters curse Microsoft for being ‘monopolistic’ and ‘high handed’ in behavior. But, when it comes to their own businesses these people proudly behave in a manner that they accuse Microsoft of behaving in. Hypocrisy at its peak. Now I wonder what was the Windows guy thinking when he decided to opt for the services of a OSS supporter.
PS: I was the Windows supporter & my previous host was the FOSS supporter.
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the web hosting guy is a low life. A frustrated one too. Its the people that are hypocrites.
Though same could have happened vice versa.
Holy mother! This is horrible. The windows guy should just cancel his hosting and move to another company.
shed search landed me in your site.
oh my jeez god,what a fuck you are propagating!
it is in the reverse order that happens.
microsoft is monopolizing operating system arena.they are actually playing with vendors,lawsuits and all to make open source look bad.
oh fella,come just understand that you are a hard greased ms fanboy.
Hmmmm.. quite interesting, what I find more interesting is that you haven’t mentioned that the windows guy personally abused the webhosting Admininstrator in which case the Admin should have terminated the Account completely, and for all the crying out loud, the windows guy should be happy that the Admin didn’t do so.
No hosting company is going to spare customers who abuse the Webhosting company FOR NO REASON.
I hope the windows guy learns his lesson and doesn’t repeat it again, because if he does, I don’t think the admin should spare him.
Well cyrus, the person in question did not at any point of time abuse the Webhosting company, a fact well known. He as a matter of fact had only good words about the services offered until today, I personally have talked to the guy about the hosting.
@Aron: It’s a true happening man. All I am saying is that the FOSS users behave in the same way that they accuse MS of when it comes to their business practices, which makes them hypocrites of the highest level.
I wonder how much of a hypocrite you are to lowball OSS and host your site on a linux server.
BTW, Abusing Webhosting Administrator ===== Abusing Webhosting company, isn’t windows allowing you to write this logical information to your memory?
1. That is the difference between a FOSS fanatic and a Microsoft user, people who appreciate Microsoft products are not anti-FOSS, they simply appreciate MS products, on the other hand, FOSS supporters are more of anti-MS. I use WordPress it’s an Open SOurce blogging tool, I recommend and have extensively used phpBB again an open source product. We don’t bad mouth a company and are not anti anything, as compared to FOSS supporters.
2. The comment was on a public forum and nothing what so ever to do with the guy’s webhost or webshosting.
“The comment was on a public forum and nothing what so ever to do with the guy’s webhost or webshosting”
Dude, the guy bought the hosting from the same forum where he abused the host. The host sells his hosting only on that forum and that guy was very well aware that it was his webhost before abusing him. So there is no excuse for him to abuse the Webhost Admin.
Hmm… I see some sparks flying here. Well just in case these sparks throw up a flame, I’m drinking lots of water…. (to do you-know-what)
You now know where to do you-know-what :D
Whoa!
I guess I know both the concerned parties :D
While you are right that your situation was handled wrongly, I don’t think it is fair to use the overarching statement that FOSS supporters are hypocrites. There are many FOSS supporters and each one embraces the philosophy on a different level. Some of us (like myself) would like to see the free/open culture expand to whole new levels–and perhaps even this situation could have been handled differently even without such philosophy. Regardless, there are those of us out there who, though not perfect, still strive to develop ways where such things do not happen. If we work together we can get there, but back-and-forth slander does not help. I think too often both sides rail accusations without considering the other’s view, which seems childish and grossly inconsiderate. I hope you have much better interaction with the FOSS community in the future. :) People aren’t always easy to deal with, but if you deal with them with time and patience things can usually be worked out.
The forum this happened had a couple of FOSS nutjobs who to be honest made FOSS look as if it was some anti-MS movement something that I’ve in the past said to be a rather extremist view. This generated a lot of hatred against FOSS itself on the forum, some other posts on my blog reflect that.
Over the years, I’ve made good friends in the FOSS community but every so often you come across a total douche who thinks that the world revolves around him and for whatever reason this idiot thought that if he banned my account I’ll beg for mercy or something…
Anyway, the point being, I’ve got some excellent relationships with FOSS supporters and I have no issues with them until they start acting like religious whackos and always replace the s in Microsoft with a $ etc. that’s just immature high school behaviour.