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Mission Critical Linux in Trouble
Dynedain writes: "ZDNet reports that Mission Critical Linux who specialized in server clustering, is laying off 90% of their work force of 60 after failing to secure a buyer of the company. :("
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to screw in a lightbulb?
Try saying the following without laughing or covering your mouth: "We're going with Mission Critical Linux to manage our consumer transactions".
-- Nobody should take away Microsoft's freedom to innovate, particularly since they haven't used it yet
Ya know, this is something I really give a shit about. Thank god we have editors who always post stories that are extremely interesting and thought provoking. I mean, I'm sure 99.9% of us have never even heard of this company, but hey, it has linux its name so it must be interesting and important right?
Michael and hemos can both blow it out their fucking ass. Timothy, too.
Joseph?
Bush Calls On Business Leaders To Create 500,000 Shitty Jobs By 2003 WASHINGTON, DC?In a keynote address at the National Economic Summit, President Bush issued a bold challenge to the nation's business leaders Monday, calling on them to create 500,000 shitty jobs by next year. "So long as unemployment continues to rise, this recession will continue, as well," said Bush, speaking before nearly 400 of the nation's top CEOs. "That is why I am turning to you to create thousands of new shit jobs. Whether it is a night-shift toilet-cleaning position at an airport or a fry-cook post at a KFC, it's up to you to help provide every hard-working American with a demeaning, go-nowhere job." During his 25-minute speech, Bush cited a number of industries with the potential to provide gainful, godawful employment for thousands of laid-off Americans. "I challenge those of you who have made your fortunes in the fields of sheet-metal fabrication, poultry processing, and highway-toll collecting to expand your roster of menial, low-paying positions with no hope of advancement," Bush said. "That is your strength, as it should be the strength of us all." Bush outlined a plan to offer $10 billion in incentives and tax breaks to companies that demonstrate a commitment to providing soul-suckingly miserable wage-slave employment for Americans. "We have too many talented people wasting away on our unemployment rolls," Bush said. "And I say, if a broom-factory owner can give a man the opportunity to dunk handfuls of brittle, flammable straw into rank, filthy vats of molten tar for $6.15 an hour, then that broom-factory owner deserves a major tax break." Business leaders across the country have been quick to show their support for the president's plan, pledging to create thousands of new low-paying, status-free positions. "Elco Products is proud to announce that we are looking for qualified applicants to work as line workers in our toxic-adhesive rat-trap division," Elco Products CEO Stephen Nevins said. "We are proud to do our part to help American workers claw their way back up to their knees." "I can make it possible for up to 50 people in the American Southwest to be mucking out grease traps by this time next week," said Rudy Maleska, president of SouthwasteCo, a Tucson, AZ, industrial-waste-removal service. "Whatever I can do to help my country, count me in." Critics of Bush's plan were quick to point to its weaknesses, such as a lack of health coverage. "Under this plan, we cannot guarantee people that their crap jobs will always provide them with healthcare from some shitty HMO," U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) said. "What's the point in earning $17,000 a year wiping the asses of the elderly as an attendant in a nursing home if you can't be sure you'll have at least some inadequate health plan if something happens to you?" Bush's supporters, for their part, point to the president's recent domestic successes. "In the past 12 months, we've seen a 7 percent rise in the availability of horrendous housing," U.S. Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK) said. "The current administration has also been working to make absolutely sure that economically disadvantaged children in this country get a substandard education and three vomit-inducing meals a day. Overall, the standard of shitty living has never been higher." Concluding his speech, Bush reiterated his commitment to creating lousy fucking jobs for all. "The average unemployed person has given so much to American business," Bush said. "Now it's time for American business to give something really shitty back."
All I have to say is "Linux is doomed to fail"
... and that Linux isn't Mision Critical (and never was).
When is everyone going to realize that an open source OS is NEVER going to make money because it is inheriently flawed. You can't secure it because you have to share it's code. You can't guarantee a market because you have to share it's code. You can't use in on anything but servers because desktop standards are never agreed upon by the community and the GUI(s) are not user friendly, nor the OS. You can't get a good, clean, stable codebase because there are way too many fingers in the pie.
The OS isn't failing, it's just losing it's best distros, the point is that BSD still has the features which Linux has lost in those distros.
I know this will take my Karma down, but as a metamoderator I think it's more important to tell the truth than be a Whore for Karma.
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer