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Gartner Says Linux PCs Just Used To Pirate Windows
LostCluster writes "CNET is reporting results from a Gartner Group report that claims 40% of desktop machines sold with Linux on them are being used to run pirate copies of Windows! The report goes on to say that this stat reaches as high in 80% in 'emerging markets', the same places that the stripped down lite version of Windows is being aimed at. Gartner's making a bold prediction that the number of machines sold as Linux desktops may eclipse the number of machines actually running Linux."
Would you like a CueCat to go with your Linux box, sir?
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
FP?
Not even close... garcia wins again.
I was pleasantly surprised when I just bought a Compaq Presario laptop: I shopped for three chareristics: 512MB ram, XPPro, and cheap (I bought the R3275US @ $1500).
The XPPro PID is printed on a sticker on the bottom of the device, and the XPSP1a CD not only is a "regular honest to god install CD," it is already branded with the PID and is pre-activated! Way to go HP!
Of course I immediately repartitioned it and made 8GB XP OS Part, 6GB Debian OS Part, and 3 20GB data parts, and use partimage to backup/restore the XP Part. But one still needs XPPro in today's world and I wanted to buy a *legal* copy (even though I used to work at Microsoft and still have a "activation-bypassed-install-as-much-as-you-want" copy from Microsoft.
It'll be interesting to see if I still need longhorn in 2008.
Liberals constantly repeat the mantra of the "Republican Attack Machine." Conveniently, they ignore the fact that their side of the fence has been responsible for one of the dirtiest election years in American history.
Consider the recenty dirty Democratic tricks that the liberal media has, also conveniently, underreported in order to bolster Kerry's candidacy. These are the items that liberals block out of their minds when blindly criticisizing the Republicans for their "dirty tricks" because the idea that they might be hypocrites would cause their heads to explode:
* Claiming Republicans are actively suppressing the black vote without any proof, evidence, or reason. This playing of the Race Card is a scare tactic used as a last-ditch effort to regain black voters that Kerry has lost. It's gotten so bad that Jesse Jackson has signed onto the Kerry campaign in an effort to regain those lost votes.
* Circulating rumors of the draft without any proof, evidence, or reason. In fact, the two legislaters pushing the draft are--DEMOCRATS! They are using the bill not as valid legislation (it will be voted down in a second), but to stir up emotions and nothing more. This is the definition of a dirty trick. An anonymous e-mail has been circulating claiming "the administration" is "quietly" letting this pass--yet another dirty liberal campaign trick. Rock The Vote has also gotten in on the action, and in yet another example of the collusion between the DNC and CBS, CBS recently reported on this story using an "apolitical voter" who is actually a chapter head of a local anti-draft and anti-war group. Conveniently, that was not mentioned in the report, and the source cited is the same debunked anonymous e-mail (even Snopes has rejected it).
* Voter fraud. It was underreported that voter registration fraud occured in two states in 2000, and that the vast majority of double-registrees were Democrats. However, this year a liberal group called the "New Voter Project" is being investigated for fraudulent voter registration of 30,000 voters in Wisconsin. If a conservative group attempted this, it would be news all over the New York Times and the LA Times. But when a liberal group does it? Not a peep. It is openly clear (Democrats freely admit it) that they will do absolutely anything to win this year's election. Anything goes now.
* The New York Times has incorrectly reported, three days in a row, that Kerry was involved in "peace talks with both sides" when he met Communists in Paris. Eventually, they ran a correction, but the attempt was to discredit the Swift Bet Voat ad which cites Kerry's own 1971 boasting of the incident. The New York Times is firmly committed to helping out Kerry and is fully implementing a policy of negative Bush news between now and November.
* All those cries about Bush "lying" because of faulty information. Yet, where are the cries that Dan Rather "lied" because he got faulty information? You won't see it.
* Liberals have spent more than 30 million dollars on anti-Bush media this year. Conservatives have spent only 8 million. We've had anti-Bush commercials, anti-Bush print ads, even an anti-Bush FEATURE FILM. Yet some veterans get together and air a commercial in a couple of states, and suddenly the "evil Republicans are running a smear campaign and Bush should denounce it." Where is Kerry denouncing Fahrenheit 9/11 or the MoveOn.org "Bush=Hitler" ad? Another hypocrital mindset of the Democrats.
Voters are seeing through the bullshit. Media organizations that dare air both sides are attacked by elite liberals as "Republican-funded" (the classic baseless "vast, right wing conspiracy" trump card they love to play when they're in a corner), but the actual folks out there see past the lies. Fox News, in the 3rd quarter, garnered more viewers than CNN, MSNBC, and the other news channels COMBINED. The internet and talk radio have showed the old media that the old bias is no longer working, and liberals are working overtime now to regain their power hold (witness the Rathergate incident), but it's not working.
10 out of 10 terrorists agree - anybody but Bush in 2004 wow, now democratic voters can join the pro-choice and young marijuana smokers as supporting terrorism!
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