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Microsoft Starts Legal Fight Over Lindows Name
actappan writes: "Whether or not Lindows is real, this article on CNET News.com indicates that Microsoft intends to sue them into oblivion. Looks like supression remains the best way to promote innovation." cyberlawyer adds: "Some of you may remember that MS originally had great difficulty obtaining a trademark for the generic term 'Windows' but was eventually able to pay off those who had filed letters of protest to the granting of the mark including Sun, Oracle, and Borland. As a trademark lawyer I (unhappily) have to admit that Lindows probably has a weak case. Of course it's never too late to bring a cancellation action based on genericide ;-)" CodeWheeney contributes a link to coverage at Yahoo, too.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practcal purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
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NASCAR fans would have fun with him.
wtf is this suppose to mean ?
I found some photos of him, which can be seen here.
/.: why the hell am I here?
Yeah! When will Microsoft learn to stop pissing you off? The nerve!
Should that be a big amount or a small amount of life? I mean come on! "Get some life" ?
yeah, that windows command line is sooooo powerful. i can do a 'dir', or an 'exit'. woot!!
btw, all mac os'es have a command line, even 10.0 versions. it's just hidden. how do you think they developed each os? magic?
Can't you see all the "Don't feed the trolls" signs? :)
Yup. anyone who finds Mac computers to be 2nd rate (like 90% of the computer users out there) must be a "troll".
Actually, one is an operating system for personal computers, while the other tries to implement the other's apis until they can figure out how to get the binaries to work for it.
mod that up as funny :)
All that's missing is a silly, cheesy name that screams "We've picked this cheesy lame-o name so as to leave no doubt as to our inexorable bankruptcy."
why must everything for linux be given some gay-ass name? i dont care if it's an acronym or otherwise, it all ends up sounding gay in the end. i just hope someone forks all these projects and gives them appropriate names that give some clue as to what they're used for.
Do us a favor and take out some annoying people first. Thanks in advance.
(Score:5, Troll)
Slashdot is the most sensical place on the Internet.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
God, I just couldn't stop laughing. I must be pretty tired. And drunk and high on crack.
This post definitely deserves my +2 bonus, btw.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
the moderation:
Moderation Totals: Funny=3, Total=3.
the result:
Innovation (Score:5, Troll)
Fix your fucking code CmdrTaco!
The Slashdot Effect: A new for
Yeah, what Sue will he start with? Susan Sarandon?
Sue Bee Honey?
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Guess not.
And kids, what does that tell us about MS's business prospects when their employees have nothing better to do than troll Slashdot?
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
I was wondering when next you'd post to Slashdot, you've been amusing me ever since I read this thread.
Keep it up, your paranoia is highly amusing.
PS: By the way, who said I work for Microsoft? It's interesting that you stalk me over the 'net but happen to ignore simple facts like the fact that I interned at MSFT and not that I work there now.