MS Struggles to Discredit Linux

PrimeNumber writes "The Register has this interesting story about a supposedly "leaked" email from Microsoft Windows division VP Brian Valentine. Although half of it is admittedly suit/rah rah speak, the interesting nuggets mention use of Microsofts "Sun and Linux insiders"." The whole email is pretty funny actually.

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Slashbot Copy n' Paste Fun

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashbot Fun Time Frolics
Simply copy n' paste your favourite expression into a post!

• "Oooh! How schweet! Does it run Linux?"
• "I wonder how long it will take before Linux is ported to this puppy?"
• "I was going to write the app, but I was too lazy to do it, and waited for someone else to make it instead."
• "The GPL is great - Let's discuss it."
• "My professor said I should be using emacs..."
• "My professor said I should be using vi..."
• "It's sooo easy to port this application, why hasn't anyone done it yet? I would, but I'm too busy working on the kernel and choosing new Transformers wallpaper..."
• "If everyone was as talented a coder as me, we'd have beaten Microsoft by now!"
• "I don't care if Windows Ultra has no bugs or security flaws whatsoever, it's still worse than Linux."
• "Chyeah! Right! If it was a business requirement to use Java, they should have refused to do the project!"
• "Of course I don't use Internet Explorer. I only use it when I'm forced to, like at the office, and at school, and at home..."
• "The government can kiss my ass until they stop monitoring my phone calls... FREEEEEDOM!"
• "I can't believe you paid money for Photoshop! GIMP is way better dude!"
• "I was going to Ask Slashdot, but then I noticed that Dragonball Z was on cartoon network..."
• "I've always wanted a Japanese girlfriend so I can understand my non-dubbed/subbed anime collection..."
• "Uh! That's is such a rip off of Communication OS from Serial Experiments Lain!"
• "Why didn't Alan ask Linus about the VM? I like being on first name basis with my heroes."
• "Everyone on IRC told me Enterprise was crap. I watched it, loved it, and then told everyone I met that it was crap."
• "The government is taking away my rights! This is so like '1984'!"
• "I'm reading the preface to C for Dummies and my head already hurts..."
• "But real programmers use a CLI! Anybody who doesn't use a Common Library Injector should have got a degree like me!"
• "I'm going to code my Gamecube emulator in C, but even though I have only ever used Visual Basic Learning Edition, it should be a one banana problem and ready in the next few days."
• "I hardly think you can call me a fashion victim - I been encoding to ogg since 1994"
• "But I'm taking Computer Science at university; You WILL respect my opinion! I am the law!"
• "I may have only just graduated, and may still be looking for work, but I've got more experience than you with your '20 years of coding'!! Get A BS!"
• "I asked Neff if they would Open Source the code to my microwave, but they told me it was proprietary..."
• "I know Ada, Fortran, Cobol, C, C++, Java, HTML, Perl and RPG.... Oh, I thought you meant know *of* them..."

NickTheGreek, London
The traffik's blaadhy murder, but then that's part a' the charm, aint't it?!

Some More Anti-Linux FUD for Your Enjoyment

[cscx]

As many of you may not know, I am actually an admin at Microsoft with über-133t access. Here is what I have found out:

H:\>net use N: \\redmond_homes\bvalentine$
The command completed successfully.

H:\>N:

N:\>cd pictures

N:\Pictures>dir *.png

Volume in drive N has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0000-FFFF

Directory of N:\Pictures

12/12/2001 11:56 AM 126,093 Picture_Of_Linus_T_In_Polka_Dot_Panties.PNG
1 File(s) 126,093 bytes
0 Dir(s) 29,193,998,336 bytes free

Sh*t, hope Brian doesn't find out it was me again... I hate it when he rams the heated curling iron you know where...

Re:I love Calculus!

[Chris Burke]

Integration by parts.
Duh.

Re:Double standard or asymmetrical struggle?

[Kool Moe]

I have two head/kybd/mouse-less Windows webserver systems here (Win98/Apache, Win2k/Apache).
Both run PCanywhere for my occasional access needs. So far, both are running 3 weeks and no need to hook-up aforementioned peripherals.
KM