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Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop?
m5shiv writes "The Inquirer is reporting on an allegedly leaked internal memo from IBM CIO Bob Greenberg discussing IBM's move to a Linux desktop: 'Our chairman has challenged the IT organization, and indeed all of IBM, to move to a Linux based desktop before the end of 2005. This means replacing productivity, web access and viewing tools with open standards based equivalents.' The enemy of my enemy is my friend?"
Wow, you can quote the Microsoft FUD site.
N E,CCA,LCP,SCNP ,CCNP,CCDA...
A MCSE, MCDST and Office Specialist? Wow again. You can open Active Directory Users and Computers and create a user, answer a telephone, and open Word docuements.
Here's a tip: "quote facts, not FUD" (TM)(C)
gnutechguy
CISSP,MCSE(NT/2000/2003),MCT,MCSA,C
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I will not say Do not weep! for not all tears are an evil
Thank you, even though it took a -1 on your part..
... At least the newsgroup was a perversion of bork bork bork.
That place is worse than the newsgroup alt.wesley.crusher.must.die.die.die
You sir, are an idiot.
Islam is a peaceful religion that has unfortunately inspired some dorks to become terrorists.
Same as christianism has done before...
No sig for the moment.
>> Exactly. Islam is being equated to Linux. This is something I don't want Linux to be associated with.
ever hear of the crusades???
a fine example of another religion (with very similar roots) which states (in a nutshell) that people should be nice to each other, which a few people who claim to follow its teachings use as an excuse to do nasty things other people.
Suicide bombing is no more a tenet of the muslim faith than wholesale rape and plundering is of the christian faith...
I know I'm feeding the trolls here, but this rediculous, ignorant anti-muslim raving pisses me off...
Well, those nuts never had control of the religion -- they're just the ones that end up in the news the most. The other billion or so guys tend to be a bit more boring.
;-)
And well, if I were watching George Bush from outside of western society when he reads from the bible and then goes into a call to war, well, I'd say it's really pretty scary too -- except he's actually been more successful on his crusades and has more dangerous weapons. One might assume that this is the Christian way but I suspect that most Christians might have something to say to that.
I'm not a follower of any religion, but I've read "all" the nice and shiny little books - including the Quran. Do you want me to cite passages from the holy books of Judaism or Christianity where Jahwe/God wants the foreskins from the enemies?
... the stories are the same, the books are the same. Guess what - most of the religion is also the same. Mohammed interpreted it a lot later than Christ did, and for quite some time Islam was the most modern religion of those three. Nowadays it's not, but trying to portray it as being "more violent" is just plain stupid.
The God in the "Old Testament" (for the X:ites), the jewish Jahwe and Allah are all equally cruel - BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME GOD.
Oh, and the Quran compares the Jews to donkeys.
And the Bible says that _everyone_ except God's own little tribe are barbarians and can be freely killed when wanting the land God "gave" to them.
it's in my head
... purge it from the barbarians? Sure it is - it is exactly the same view of others.
/me - Swedish
Christ was the prophet who talked about being friendly, God himself always ok'd killing everyone not agreeing with you (if you believed in It, this killing everyone not agreeing with It).
We're down to semantics now. Interesting, isn't it? There's absolutely no more "violence" in the Quran compared to the Torah/Old testament. People claiming "Islam does this and Islam does that" seldom know anything about Islam, and mistake ancient traditions that has nothing to do with the religion with Islam itself.
People in Europe are a bit more open-minded than in the US - which fits well when viewing Scientific American's map of modernity where the Nordic countries (with Sweden in the lead) tops the list. We see "God bless America" and "Allah Akhbar" being the same thing, and that the war between ignorant people in the US and ignorant followers of bin Laden being equally stupid.
it's in my head