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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."
Please use the correct title, RMS is rolling in his grave right now.
Oh wait.. he's not dead yet.
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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
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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"
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Lemon curry???
They found Window's was better.
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X-wife?? I bow to your geekhood. You truly are a geek Sir. And I mean it in a good way.
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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.