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Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game'
wackybrit writes: "We've all known Linux has got Microsoft all worried, but they've always denied it. On Monday at a conference in LA, however, Steve Ballmer (of Microsoft) confessed that the FUD surrounding Linux isn't quite what it was made out to be. The Register has also covered the story in an easier to read fashion. They point out that Microsoft has just changed a page on their site which originally derided Linux, but now simply states what 'Windows does better.'"
Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux!
Linux, Linux, Linux!
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Oh, and btw: FUCK the lameness filter. Thanks.
Sorry about the bad grammer, here's my correction:
Frosty piss in CmdrTaco's ass(or mouth if you prefer).
....and I knew it would only be a matter of time before Slashdot would pick up on it.
Look, guys. It was cool to be Anti-MS a few years ago when Linux was amassing it's own bandwagon.
But it's time to grow up. Don't be such a fucking tool.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
Lunix is Luser's UNIX.
BTW its Troll Tuesday here in the great USA on the west-coast.
I would like to send shoutouts to all my dead troll homies. Also a big FUCK YOU to the SlasDot Janitors.
microsoft.CLIT
I like this clause: "In addition, open source components are often licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which may expose the OEM's intellectual property and source code to open source participants and its competitors."
I couldn't have stated it better myself.
Did anyone notice this: "...hot-fix support, and hierarchical storage management...." (windows 2000). "Furthermore, Linux offers no support for hot fixes and does not have a hierarchical storage management capability." (Linux) Hmmm, starange what are kernel patches then? By the way hotfixes (that usualy break something elses) from ms are always way to late. Also this hummors me: "Windows 2000-based server appliances provide advanced reliability features including a mature, well-tested journaling file system (JFS), which enables easy,..." "Linux now has over five options for a JFS. All of these are new to Linux and the depth of integration and regression testing can be scattered and the number of real-world implementations limited. The OEM will need to verify for itself the integration, depth of testing, and in-field results. With Linux, the OEM will have to take on the extra integration work to incorporate an add-in..." So what happened to the best file systems ever (NTFS) that ms was promoting. Also according to ms extra work on JFS by distributions, that increase realiabitly and stabilty is a bad thing according to M$. Last couple funny things i will leave of with: "..And no functionality equivalent to Windows File Protection--significantly increasing difficulty and time when recovering from a failure." I alays thought linux had file portecting, using users and groups and modes. (did Ms chmod -Rf 777 / after linux installs). "significantly increasing difficulty and time when recovering from a failure." - did these people ever try to use nt recovery console, to save windows (i think not). Hmm, resucing linux data using a boot disk, is so easy.
Give the trolls a home.
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Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Simple example of default copy & paste.
I make that 6 movements in Windows and 3 in Linux, that makes the Linux desktop twice as productive as the Windows desktop. Are there any other misguided and ill informed comments you wish to make?
1) Crashes more often than Linux
2) Attracts more hackers and viruses than Linux
3) Forces you to upgrade more often
Linux is free. Windows costs money. You get what you pay for, right?
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So, according to your logic, something that costs more is inherently better? Surely you don't believe in that, linux zealot?
I'd take a humble, unknowing, stupid MCSE over an arrogant, unknowing, thinkgeek-shirt-touting, smelly unix admin any day