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Microsoft's Platform Strategist Speaks On Linux
prostoalex writes "Martin Taylor, general manager for platform strategies at Microsoft, was interviewed by CRN magazine on Linux, open source development, and Microsoft's official stand on it."
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I have also suggested the same, but you have to realize that all of the built-in spyware would be discovered.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
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RTFP, dipshit. He mentions the fact that he's productizing Linux and IGNORING LINUX IN GENERAL while making no claims to be speaking to the marketing drek that the microdroid is spitting. He then goes on to toss his own two cents in on what the microdroid is ignoring and what Linux "really is". He's voicing an opinion on what Microsoft "doesn't get" about Linux, or, at least, chooses to ignore, in this type of interview so they can focus on narrowly defined numbers that don't speak to the whole of Linux.
Maybe if you took the time to actually read and digest the post before ripping into the poster like some dick-stroking wanker you'd sound like a little bit less of a lobotomized, shit-flinging moron. Get your nose out of your own shit for a few seconds and try some critical thinking for once. You may actually find you like it better than licking your own sweaty balls and stroking your over-inflated ego.
Go ahead, punk. I dare you to try and flame back.
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I suspect there's a lot more for them to worry about than spyware. Does anyone here seriously think that Bill Gates actually wrote the first version of Windows from scratch? Do you seriously think he has the intellectual capacity of a Linus Torvalds? You think SCO is a pain in the ass? Imagine someone with some spare bucks taking Bill and Company to court for borrowing their code. The mind boggles...
[Just an aside--but have you noticed that any suggestion that our elected representatives and their minions in Washington aren't pure and righteous as the driven snow gets consistently modded down by a seeming core of embedded government stooges? And this on a website with the political distribution of a Slashdot? Are they really THAT afraid of a bunch of informed geeks? Did you realise you were that important?]
"Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."
Having seen oracle support on RHEL 2.1 and 3.0, I would hardly think I would be in any different boat then I would have been on Debian Woody. But for a test instance I hardly see anything wrong with the overclocked opteron running a 2.6 kernel. the only problem with that configuration is that oracle isn't compiled for x86-64 yet.
What I've learned to day is that 75% of 4- or 5-rated Linux advocates cannot spell "competetive", put dollar signs in the wrong place, make retarded and deliberate misinterpretations of bad fast food analogies, and regard what "platform strategists" say as gospel. Wake up, perhaps stop being so reactionist and understand that while Linux is fantastic for developers who know what they're doing, it's entirely unsuitable for the average PC or Mac user who just wants a computer that's there when they turn it on, is responsive, has a good range of easilly available software that they can pop down the shops and buy, doesn't crash too often and lets them generally do things in the way that they've been doing them for the past 10 years. That is what Windows gives. "*wail* but it doesn't do it for freeeee and I can't rip off their source code to make my life easier :( :(" - there is no such thing as a free lunch. Even at McDonalds.
/. is already biased towards Linux and is undoubtedly also a nerd/geek/whatever who knows how Linux works, what pitfalls lie in wait, how to compile stuff, and all that general administration crazyness (tech terms). They have no base understanding that Linux is much too confusing for the typical man in the street to use, has no phone number you can call when it explodes (how does one post on newsgroups in search of snide and patronising "support" comments about how much of a dork one is for not fscking one's /dev/hda1 when the computer just blew up?), and does not at all help users to migrate from Windows to Linux. Windows used to have help for Mac users new to Windows. If Linux wanted to do this then certain little problems would start peeping out like "where the hell are all the shortcut keys and why are they not standardized?" and "why is this GUI so damn slow on a P400 with 128mb ram?". Linux is great, it's just a shame that all the software written to run on the Linux kernel is either a port of some handy old *BSD console app or a GTK+ based project that is still pre-bloody-1.0.0 and only really 80% complete. This is the general apathy of open source. Work hard on project, hurl it out to some other guys, sit back and watch as they fix it, get bored, and leave it to rot. No deadlines. Even sourceforge.net doesnt appear to have a deployment timeline function.
Anyone running Linux and reading
MS know their shit, know it well, have been in the biz since before a lot of Linux coders were even born, get themselves into trouble now and then but still bounce back, and have a lot of lovely money to show for it. I wish I had a fucking huge company turning over billions of dollars, and I sure as hell arent going to get that by peddling cheap tat that frequently falls apart or does unexpected things. I hate KDE and Gnome with a passion. Win2k gui, Unix cmd prompt, nice, thanks I'll have fries with that.