I grasp that. I presume you are a heavy computer user. My thinking is that most people can probably be quite content with a Linux box for their everyday usage.
I have friends who are Linux gurus, some who run server farms and such. It's been awhile since I talked to them, but if I recall properly, they seemed to think Linux boxes were perfectly good for those sorts of operations too.
Running Ubuntu 14.10 for the last month. Took me a day or two to get DVD authoring going and setting up OpenVPN with port forwarding. Those were the last two things I needed to avoid that cluster Windows totally.
It’s kinda like me having a car that I’m driving now. Someone comes up and says, “You know, you really ought to be driving another kind of car, and I’ve got one for you that you’ll like. It will do everything that your car does now!”
Well, the problem with that is that I’ve got a car that I like now ... LOL ... And then, since I like this car, I’m probably going to buy a newer model of the same one.
You see ... I would not see the need to switch models of cars.
It would be the same here. But, it actually goes a bit beyond that. The first iPhone that came out, I got it. And I still like them. And then I have an iPad, which I’ll be updating with a newer model iPad. With just those two things, I don’t see any need for me going for a different brand, and I know another brand would not address the issues that some raise here.
If I were to go for some obscure model (which I have no idea what that would be), I would still encounter the issue that some raise, from the standpoint of the telecommunications companies (which you have to have for communicating). Furthermore, I haven’t heard a thing about the status of the Internet services, for getting the Internet and how they do in regards to this issue that some here raise.
From the way I see it, with the cellular phone service, to the cellular phones, to computers, to tablets, to Internet services ... I could twist myself into a pretzel and still not address the issue that some raise here ... :-) ...
SO ... I just buy the products for what a business is supposed to do for products and services ... which is sell the best product for their customers, and the customers evaluate it from their own personal standpoint.
Another “structural” way that conservatives and Christians can deal with the issue is to build companies which are so good, in their products and services, that the general public will buy their products and services solely on the basis of them being better than anyone else’s. That’s structural and long-term to accomplish that, but it’s doable. That way the customers still “buy the best” for their needs, and the companies who are supplying those products and services are conservatives.
Business is about making money by supplying the best for the customers. That “best” is always in the eyes of the buyer and no one else. Someone else cannot tell another buyer what is good for that “other buyer”. Therefore the business must do this and do it so that it is true with every buyer from their own standpoint.
And when a business succeeds in doing that, then they “make a whole lot of money”.
There’s the answer in the long run ... you have a business which builds the best and it is affirmed by every single buyer, and the customer give the business their money ... and the business makes a pile of money. The “pile of money” they make is the affirmation and proof that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing for their customers.
I’ve asked Swordmaker in on this one, because he’s run companies and is an economist, and perhaps he can shed light on this.