Report From "Get The Facts"

Richard W.M. Jones writes "Huw Lynes wrote an interesting report from Microsoft's "Get The Facts" show in London (earlier Slashdot story). Along with the report he provides some analysis of their apparent strategy, which includes equating "Shared Source" with "Open Source" and making out that Linux isn't free."

Comments

Re:It's a super bad analogy

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, he reiterated the exact same damn point in the fucking article because he's a retard who couldn't read properly. Look, the original article says it, right it:

"My absolute favourite part of the talk was when Barley started to extol the virtues of Windows because everything in it was made by one manufacturer. A fair point which would have been well taken had he not gone on to draw an idiotic analogy. He asked us to imagine an aeroplane where different components were made by different companies. Apparently he's never heard of Airbus."

Gee, I wonder what that last sentence is doing there. Hey! Maybe the author is trying to draw our attention to the absurdity of the analogy, because asking an audience to "imagine an aeroplan where different components were made by different companies" is actually exactly what Airbus does, and does very well, so the analogy is stupid isn't it, because we can imagine a company that does just that and is very successful at it.

So once the original author writes a very obvious single line rebutal to the analogy, our friend the Slashdot poster blunders along with his "Hur hur hur, I didn't read the original article properly but look I'm so clever, because I'll just rebutt this analogy made by the Microsoft guy even though the original fucking author did it much better than I am about to, but I failed to read the article so I wouldn't know that, would I?"

Now fuck off, both of you.

Re:The article

[PhxBlue]

This isn't "informative," it's a migraine waiting to insult someone. At least learn how to format your posts before you engage in your karma-whoring!

Re:Enterprise Level

[black mariah]

And you offer no proof for your statement, dipshit. In my opinion you are nothing more than yet another Linux ballslurper.