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META Predicts Linux Software From Microsoft in 2004
trandles writes "According to this story at NYTimes (FRYYY), META Group is reporting that Microsoft will begin selling Linux software in 2004. It also goes on to report that a META Group study comes to the same conclusion as the earlier (MS-funded) IDC study that Linux has a higher TCO than MS solutions for some applications." Remember, this is speculation on the part of META, and has to do with back-end software, not Office. (But if Microsoft wanted to, they could become the world's biggest producer of Linux software.)
The head of the Galactic
Confederation (76 planets around
larger stars visible from here)
(founded 95,000,000 yrs ago, very space opera)
solved overpopulation (250 billion
or so per planet) -- 178 billion
average) by mass implanting.
He caused people to be brought to
Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb
on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2)
and then the Pacific area ones
were taken in boxes to Hawaii
and the Atlantic Area ones to
Las Palmas and there "packaged."
His name was Bill. He used
renegades. Various misleading
data by means of circuits etc.
were placed in the implants.
When through with his crime Loyal Officers
(to the people) captured him
after 6 years of battle
and put him in an electronic
mountain trap where he still
is. "They" are gone. The place (Confed.)
has since been a desert.
It is fucking hilarious. Read it before modding down, assholes.
Wow, that is so obviously a troll it's not even funny.
Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish.
Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries.
The man only owes you a fish if you demand it back. The ideal solution would be to give a man fish while you learn him to how to fish, so that he won't starve to death before he can fish for himself. Then demand nothing back.
How can you enslave everyone in your corporate empire if you don't demand the fish back?
Ideally, you should also be charging interest on the fish, at a rate such that, even if he does somehow manage to learn how to fish, he'll be stuck for the rest of his life paying off that first fish you gave him.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!