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Microsoft in 2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-never-know dept.

r.jimenezz writes "Over at Wired there's an entertaining article written by Gary Wolf. It purports to be a memo written by a 2008-Microsoft-employed Linus Torvalds to Bill, arguing against Steve Ballmer's desire to go back to the untenable OS monopoly proposition instead of the 'new order': Windows is now some sort of desktop environment on top of an open OS!"

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  1. linux nerds suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    linux nerds suck

  2. Old News for Nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This was posted all over the internet days ago... Thanks again slashdot for proving your irrelevance!

  3. I got the FP!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    YAY!

  4. Go back to coding! by flibuste · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice piece of useless writing. Thinking that people actually spend time writing those things. I wonder what silicon they smoke

  5. I read the F&@*^% article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's just a very stupid piece. Very well suited to be publicized on slashdot. Yeah, mod me down, fat boy, because I don't like your stupid web site nerd forum.

  6. Thats great... by Devalia · · Score: 0, Troll

    ....but can they tell me next weeks lottery numbers?

  7. Linus looks like a penguin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone else think that Linus looks like a fat penguin?

  8. Hack Writing by TempusMagus · · Score: 0, Troll

    That article was bad. I don't want to be unusally cruel - but 10th graders are above using such a narrative advice. I think the author hamfistedly confused improbablity with insight.

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    -_-
  9. Jesus Christ was a motherfucker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    PROOF: God is Jesus's father, so he must have fucked his mother. Additionally, Jesus and God are the same entity, according to the bible. Therefore, it was Jesus who fucked his mother. QED

    1. Re:Jesus Christ was a motherfucker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Your dad is your father, so you must of fucked your mom. You and Your father are two entities, according to logic. Therefor, it was you who fucked your mom.

  10. Memo to Wired by digitalgimpus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dear Wired,

    Isaac Asimov was the king of Science Fiction. Your attempt at the genre is pretty much just frightening and strange despite being somewhat comical.

    Please go back to your regularly scheduled programming.

    Regards,
    Slashdot Community.

  11. Gah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsofts desktop environment is the cruft that makes it "bad".

    Microsofts Kernel is smaller, does not need a recompile for hardware updates (*snigger*), handles threading and memory management better and with alot more features then "Teh legendary linux kernel". Frankly, Linux (the man and the kernel) doesn't have anything Microsoft needs.

    They (ms) just need to get their shit together and get their engineering standards homogenous across all departments. The wads who produce garbage like clippy and "let the intern do it with string.h" arn't the same guys who make the kernel.

  12. Re:THE REAL MEMO!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anyone that truely believes Apples products are higher quality is smoking crack.

    Why do I have over 6 million Dell LCD pixels and not a single dead one amoung the buch while I only have 1.5 million Apple LCD pixels with over 5 dead in the bunch.

    Why is it that all my Apple zealot friend's machines are always in the shop? Broken motherboards, bad RAM, busted fans, etc.

    Apple has nice, fancy packaging at a high price, nothing more. Apple's quality is not anything special.

    OS X is fairly nice but not anything special, the interface is extremely inconsistent in some places and the OS itself is relatively slow.

  13. Re:I read this and found it to be terribly funny by Winkhorst · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you say so.... And there are still people who don't believe in alternate realities!

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    "Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."