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Kill Bill, IBM vs Microsoft
theodp writes "Though IBM did not invent Linux, does not distribute it and earns nary a penny on it, the computer giant is spending billions in a crusade to make Linux the world's most popular operating system. All told, more than 12,000 IBMers today devote at least part of their time to Linux. To hear IBMers tell it, all this effort is a matter of giving more choices to customers tired of the Microsoft monopoly. But according to Forbes, IBM has a broader agenda--undermining Bill Gates' company in the battle for a new $21 billion market for Web-linked software."
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So, if I were to buy an IBM laptop, could I get one that would reliably dual-boot linux and windows straight from the factory?
Without having to glom together drivers and stuff?
That would be cool. If not from IBM, then what would be a good source for something like this?
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
To hear IBMers tell it, all this effort is a matter of giving more choices to customers tired of the Microsoft monopoly. But according to Forbes, IBM has a broader agenda
One of the most horrible and true books I've ever read. The book that changed my life: Winning Through Intimidation -- reality philosophy.
Life is a pile of chips. Robert Ringer teaches that life is all about getting the chips. It's never about not getting the chips. No matter how grandiose the words or how noble the intentions -- it's all about chips.
IBM is going for chips even though they say they're not. Ringer teaches there are three basic types of people: A. those that are going for your chips and let you know that up front, B. those that are going for your chips, but lie to you and tell you that they are not going for your chips (and play your friend, ally, whatever), C. those that tell you they are not going for your chips, actually believe, themselves, that they are not going for your chips, but in the end, go for your chips anyhow. IBM is B in this one. People dying for causes and with high-minded/humanitarian intentions are C maybe, etc. Oh, Ringer doesn't mention it, but there is also the D folks IMO: those that are used by A, B and Cs to get to the goal of getting the chips.
Every great philosopher, every great teacher, every Ghandi and Confucious -- whoever. They all fall prey to Ringer philosophy.
Ringer's theory of reality is also worth quoting daily:
Reality isn't what you wish it would be. It isn't what it even appears to be, but reality it what it is, and you either go with it or get destroyed by it....
Or something like that....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Way off-topic:
You really don't need to spell out the word "ummm" when you write things. It umm doesn't add what you think it adds like when you ummm use it in conversation.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
And 200,000 volts of AC power crisps.
Fellowship 9/11