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Microsoft Compares Windows And Linux
Halcyon-X writes "Microsoft is hosting a discussion on Windows and Linux between its two top Linux consultants. Martin Taylor and Bill Hilf talk about the various OSS licenses, focus on the open source development model, competing implementations of administration tools, TCO, and risk assessment. Also available in offline formats, doc (which looks fine in OpenOffice.org) and wma as well."
Windows is open source. Its unbelievable but true
Free XBox, PS2
Please use the correct title, RMS is rolling in his grave right now.
Oh wait.. he's not dead yet.
-- this sig is a speck of your imagination, enjoy it.
,,,of when my GF compared herself to the x-wife. I knew the outcome from the beginning...who wouldn't?
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...friendly URLs.
perl -e 'foreach(values %SIG){$_="IGNORE";}while(){}'
Finally, an impartial review of Windows vs. Linux. I have no doubt that at the end of this article the Microsoft engineers will recommend the clearly superior Linux OS over Windows Server 2003.
/me goes to RTFM and weep in the corner.
After reading that I couldn't get the image of Bill and Marty from KBBL out of my head.
Marty: Hey, thanks Bill. Yes having access to the source code or the "building instructions" is evil. And we at Microsoft will keep you save from all the evil stuff.
Bill: That's right Marty. And the next person who rings in will win a months supply of IE updates.
Marty: Watch out Bill, that slashdot crowd is trying to take us off the air.
Bill: That's ok Marty, we have the latest IIS, we are as safe as... NO CARRIER
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
This should be as unbiased as "Slashdot hosts a discussion between the RIAA and the MPAA".
Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from hosting videos of other impartial Microsoft seminars as "Apple: A Scourge or a Mere Annoyance?" and "*BSD: If It is Not Dead It Should Be"
MOD PARENT UP +1 Psychic!
Lemon curry???
They found Window's was better.
Herr Goebbels investigating issues of journalistic integrity in 1940s Germany.
It's obvious that Microsoft still does not 'get' key aspects of open source:
"I always ask the question of customers and yes, there's always a free version, there's Debian, there's Gentoo, there's different distributions that they can pull down and use in a different environment, but when you really want to deploy it in a mission-critical way, when you really want to have something that's broader from an infrastructure perspective, they want something that has support"
The freeness of the version has nothing whatever to do with the support. I use a server that is Debian but has commercial support.
I also found the following comment very amusing:
"in Windows Server particularly, some of the things that struck me as innovative were some of the server management tools. The ability to take a Windows server and literally dynamically change it from a DHCP infrastructure server to a streaming media server, or more importantly, taking a file/print server and adding a variety of other services, maybe make it a domain controller, maybe also make it a Web server."
Wow! How 'innovative'! Maybe he should look at a tool like 'dselect' under Debian. I can also 'literally dynamically' add and remove services from my server. Anyway, the idea of having a single machine that is nothing more than a DHCP infrastructure server suggests Windows is not the most powerful system.
This is like listening to two Microsoft employees bashing Linux... Oh wait...
We know the only way we win with customers is by having a much better solution to offer our customers.
Hahahahahahahahaha
Does a Christian soccer team even need a goalkeeper?
In my opinion his opinion is fact.
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// Note: I did agree with them in that nearly all migrations will require not just an admin, but probably several developers. They did correctly state that this is not what people want to do (pay developers and have to maintain something). I think this is a valid migration cost, and a good point. However, once enough migrations are done, and the developed migration tools realeased, the impact should be nil.
// An obvious lie, because it happens everyday in Linux. Fact: MS can never have the QA testing that linux has, bu virtue of their development models. It was stupid for MS to pick a fight here.
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If this discussion was so open, why not invite some outside people in?
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Sure:
FUD
Corporate-speak FUD
Slick FUD
Unbelievably clumsy and obvious FUD
Laughable FUD
Bone to the FOSS community
FUD
Conclusion: FUD
In my opinion your opinion that his opinion is fact is fact.
:)
Besides, opinions that are backed by facts make a pretty strong argument.
"You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older."
They cannot even get this intarweb thingy correct.
Losers...
Is that a fact?
Can I get an eye poke?
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It lets anyone install anything on your machine and connect to anyone on the Internet so that your bandwidth and disk space is utilized to the limit.
Windows improves US Tech Industry and hence US economy by creating opportunities for every other software company - one keeps on finding vulnerabilites (Security Companies), one protecting it (Symantec , etc)and the other one exploiting it (all those script kiddies making u visit porn sites).
Now, Can you beat that?
>> Techflock-flock onto the best bits of technology
Look, but don't touch.
Touch, but don't taste.
Taste, but don't swallow.
Hrm, if Bill Gates is the devil, as I have now undoubtedly proven, does that mean Ballmer is the person who gets spread-eagled naked in front of me to tempt me into a life of sin.
Oh my god, I've just gone blind, and I think I threw up a little, help, help...
Well said - perhaps it can be summed up thus:
Linux is Windows' competition.
Linux has no competition.
So you agree that Linux is more secure for the foreseeable future... Or are you making the bold prediction that Linux is on the verge of displacing Windows as the dominant OS?
Myself, I predict that by the time Linux is "targeted more because it's so popular" like Windows supposedly is now, we'll all have flying cars, and they'll run Linux, and they'll get hacked and start falling out of the sky. It'll be quite horrible. But then we'll just send a cyborg back in time to kill Linus Torvalds before he creates Linux and it'll all work out in the end because after the change in the timeline we'll all be running OpenBSD.