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Ballmer Wants to "Stomp Linux" Using MS community

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shiny-jackboots-look-good-on-steve dept.

StefMeister writes "According to this article on CNet, MS wants to fight Linux by using their community support (of course by community they mean the few guys they personally know and who make money using their MS knowledge). My favorite quote of the article is this one "Linux is not like Novell, it isn't going to run out of money--it started off bankrupt, in a way.""

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  1. Can someone say... by Carnage4Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...REMIX!!!!

  2. And uhm.. after that? by rmadmin · · Score: 5, Funny

    So uhm, after they stomp out linux, what then, stomp out BSD? And uhm, after that? Apple's OSX? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.. I'm shaking in my Open Source boots.

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    1. Re:And uhm.. after that? by Lxy · · Score: 5, Funny

      If they stomped BSD, then where could they get code from?

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    2. Re:And uhm.. after that? by Alien+Being · · Score: 4, Funny

      After that... Monkeyboy appears on stage with a flock of penguins doing his rendition of "La Cucaracha".

    3. Re:And uhm.. after that? by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, he'll sell you a pair, but he has to include the pattern he used to make them.

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    4. Re:And uhm.. after that? by bark76 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Anyone want to write an FAQ on why it should be called BSD/Windows?

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  3. What's an MS community? by MongooseCN · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm imaging it's like the /. community except all the posts will be s/microsoft/linux.

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    1. Re:What's an MS community? by orkysoft · · Score: 4, Funny
      Quoth ActiveWin.com:
      Sorry for the slower site last night, we got a little over-run because we managed to get a lot of Xbox screenshots before any other sites last night and thus about ten big name sites were linking too us. (emphasis mine)

      Amazing! They even make grammatical errors in the editorials, just like Slashdot!

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    2. Re:What's an MS community? by The+J+Kid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even closer than you think:

      From ActiveWin.com:
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      #24 By cschweda
      I installed Linux for a friend last week and Slashdot posted it as a headline.

      Then a bunch of 14 year old zealots posted 345 comments about how (a) Windows sucked, (b) linux didn't, (c) CmdrTaco misspelled a word in the headline, (d) JonKatz sucked, (e) no he doesn't, you suck, (f) Natalie Portman is one hunka svelt flesh, (g) a beowulf cluster would be cool a thing to do, (h) Slashdot isn't like how it was in the old days, (i) yes, it is, STFU.
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      Kinds of says it all doesn't it?

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    3. Re:What's an MS community? by suss · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nope. It's hidden somewhere in the EULA for XP SP1.

      By clicking this, you agree to do MS Community Service for the period of 1 year.
      This includes so called "trolling" on "slashdot" and shouting your mouth off in channel "#Debian" on irc.openpro^K^K^K^K^K^K^K^K^K^Kfreenode.net

    4. Re:What's an MS community? by Bazzargh · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yup, there were lots of excellent posts a while back. Tham war tha days.

    5. Re:What's an MS community? by 21mhz · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm imaging it's like the /. community except all the posts will be s/microsoft/linux

      And, accordingly, the reverse?
      Then, their pet peeve would be GNU/Microsoft.

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    6. Re:What's an MS community? by Gordonjcp · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nope. They call themselves ../..%%35%63../

    7. Re:What's an MS community? by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, but at ActiveWin, you read through the articles and see things like,

      "Does anyone know how to set a password on the background so my sister doesn't keep setting it as the Backstreet Boys?"

    8. Re:What's an MS community? by plover · · Score: 4, Funny
      No, here's the difference, as seen on the link you included:

      #2 By sodatwit (6 Posts) at 9/25/2002 5:29:18 AM
      This comment has been removed due to a violation of the Active Network Terms of Use.

      When their editors mod you down, they mod you all the way down.

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    9. Re:What's an MS community? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wow! Finaly I will be able to get FIRST POST!
      I am just bookmarking that sirt, removing ./
      Bye!

      Yours Anonymous

  4. Not a duplicate story by back_pages · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sorry, this is not the same article as this Slashdot article. The ZDNet article is exactly the same as the CNet article, except the ZDNet article includes this INSIGHTFUL EASTER EGG OF KNOWLEDGE at the end:
    "The big issue there, he said, was a reluctance to accept legal liability for open-source software."
  5. Started Off Bankrupt? by medscaper · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Linux is not like Novell, it isn't going to run out of money--it started off bankrupt, in a way."


    As opposed to Microsoft, which, of course, will simply end up bankrupt...

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  6. Developers, developers, developers, developers by Lejade · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, right. Keep stomping monkey boy... ;)

  7. All I have to say by afidel · · Score: 5, Funny

    is Balmer is a crack monkey. For evidence see here

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  8. Balmer and RMS by smoondog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dammit Balmer! that's GNU/Linux ...

    -Sean

  9. Re:Umm... by Ian+Wolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    It isn't!? OMG! Slashdot editors are human! What will I ever do?

    My life is a lie.

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  10. Raarghhh! by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Funny


    "Linux... making me angry... can't... contain... emotions... third-person... narration... taking... over... RAAARGHHHH!!!"

    *Ballmer transforms into a giant, green-skinned version of himself, tearing his clothes and exposing his enormous gut*

    "BALLMER STOMP LINUX!!! RAARRGHH!!! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!!"

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    1. Re:Raarghhh! by haggar · · Score: 3, Funny

      I can almost picture that thing running back and forth on a podium, screaming, jumping and sweating profusely.

      Oh, wait...

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  11. I Saw This Show In Vegas by cmdr_beeftaco · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Stomp Linux" is an excellent production, clever choregraphy and wonderful Celtic tunes. A truly worthwhile followup to "The Sprit of The Dance." I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats...

  12. Re:clustering by thelexx · · Score: 5, Funny

    A boss who wants a cluster installed with only 24 hours notice, who only has a single admin on staff, and an MS admin at that, deserves precisely what he/she gets.

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  13. He needs to add a word... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We will beat Linux on clusters.

    It should read:

    We will beat Linux on cluster fucks.

    Remember, Mr. Ballmer, Honesty is the Best Policy...

  14. Re:Ballmer to the Walls by iceT · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...have to add value...

    Is that what they're calling the BSOD these days?

    "Added Value"?

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  15. MCSEs of the world! by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unite, and be used!

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  16. Ballmer is right! by dcavanaugh · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's not like Novell, it isn't going to run out of money..."

    Steve almost has a clue. Linux has very little money, no central base to be attacked or bought, and it's massively distributed into residential basements and dark corners of IT departments.

    This has to be Microsoft's worst nightmare -- an enemy that doesn't care about money or "winning" market share. An enemy that takes Microsoft's "clone and lowball" strategy and turns it back against them. Indeed, Linux is the Viet Cong of the internet.

    I find it fascinating to watch Microsoft fumble and bumble with ineffective strategies against an enemy that they truly don't understand. When Microsoft decides to concede the OS battle and tries to take over the Linux desktop, then I'll be worried about the monopoly being perpetuated. They keep denying any intention of porting Office to Linux, so maybe it's Microsoft that will run out of money.

  17. Bad examples by Srin+Tuar · · Score: 5, Funny


    Right now I'm running Windows 2k, working through some bugs in a custom DCOM object. So I guess I'm a corporate sheep. In an hour or so I'll be working through some fortran code in unix. Then I'm a greasy peace loving hippy.


    Although I agree about not subscribing to archtypes, you need to pick some better examples:

    • Windows 2k, DCOM: corporate sheep
    • Fortran, commercial unix: old corporate sheep
  18. bankrupcy beeats the alternatives! by extra+the+woos · · Score: 2, Funny

    I duno, but I'd certainly rather be bankrupt than run around waving my arms like a chicken screaming "give it to me!" in front of a large group of people. But that's just me. I'd say Ballmers went bankrupt and his dance skills were confiscated by the bank.

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  19. Duhhhh by orius_khan · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they stomped BSD, then where could they get code from?

    Duhh, they'll just keep copying the code of independent open source high school graduates which they get by reading their monitors via the secret cameras they have installed in everyone's house. Then the programmer dies in a freak accident/hate crime so he can't dispute the origin of the code.

    Geez, I guess some people just don't pay attention to what their television tells them anymore...

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  20. Re:clustering by Tschaess · · Score: 2, Funny

    Okey... let's say... 24h to get the licence.. oh shit time's up