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IBM Releases Desktop Linux Presentation

An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com, in coordination with the Desktop Linux Consortium, is making select presentations from Monday's groundbreaking Desktop Linux conference at Boston University's Corporate Education Center available. Sessions from the well-received program included talks from key companies and open source projects bringing Desktop Linux into the enterprise. The first presentation available is from IBM's Sam Docknevich, Linux and Grid Services Executive for IBM Global Services and is titled "Open Source Desktop - Directions for today... and Tomorrow". His presentation discusses IBM's push into the Linux desktop market, an initiative from inside Big Blue."

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  1. Europeans, mod this up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    God Bless America

    God Bless America, with the worst crime levels in the first world
    God Bless America, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as President
    God Bless America, the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
    God Bless America, so happy to violate international laws
    God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
    God Bless America, and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
    God Bless America, with barely 300 years of dire history and culture
    God Bless America, all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
    God Bless America, with the highest obesity levels in the developed world
    God Bless America, because corporations should be allowed to run amok
    God Bless America, wasting billions to attack foreign countries

    God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.

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    1. Re:Europeans, mod this up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      According to the stats, Europe has the highest percentage rate of muggings, robberies, and the least chance for a criminal to get prosecuted. Their murder rate is climbing while ours is dropping. All signs point to Britain being fucking insane. Sorry.

  2. I got the fever baby! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    But they sure do come
    I hope they comin' for me
    And I don't know how they do it
    But they sure do it good
    I hope they doin' it for free

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    The first time that I got it
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    I think I got it some more

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    I feel no pain
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    You know you got it when you're going insane
    It makes a grown man cryin' cryin'
    Won't you make my bed

    I make the manpussy purr with
    The stretch of my hand
    They know they gettin' it from me
    They know just where to go
    When they need their lovin man
    They know I do it for free

    They give me goatsecx fever
    Goatsecx fever baby!

  3. Re:IMHO, Open source is bad for the economy by Oregonian · · Score: -1, Troll

    The explanation for MonkeyBoy video. Steve Ballmer has a greased-up Bill Gates doll up his ass.

  4. Typical IBM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Really nice how slide ten basically puts the IBM strategy into a clear light.
    • Assesments!
    • Consulting!
    • Open up your wallet! We'll be here a while!

    IBM would sell you your mother if they could get a Purchase Order...and it would take a 18 month assesment with a team of 15-20 Global Services people to get that done. Linux is just their latest fad.
  5. Re:The only thing missing... by Ianoo · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can't say I've ever had a printer "plug in and go" for me, under Linux. Printing is still something that needs improvement!

  6. I hope the rest of the article is more accurate .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    than the claim that Tyngsboro is just outside Boston. I used to live down the street from the Corporate Education Center and commute into Boston. The commute is 50 minutes on a good day (35 on an early Saturday morning with no traffic).