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Bill Gates Claims OSS Has Poor Interoperability
XeRXeS-TCN writes "In yet another example of Bill Gates seemingly 'not getting it' (or getting it just fine and spreading FUD), he has sent out an email to all MSFT's corporate customers, stating that if they are looking for interoperability, they should not look to Linux or OSS software. What he really means of course, is free alternatives trying to interoperate with Microsoft's non-documented proprietary standards."
What's next!? Cigarette companies are going to claim that they aren't harmful to your health?
I'm a big tall mofo.
who brought us Windows ME, an OS that isn't even interoperable with itself.
Sorry I didn't get the email, my email client thought it was a SPAM !!
I love how the spyware the Windows OS attracts interoperates with other spyware on the system.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
He is the world's leading expert on lack of interoperability, dammit! He knows what he's talking about!
Bill Gates would say the human body doesn't need oxygen if it meant a few more billion dollars worth of profits. Little snide remark aside, let's ponder this. Bill says to his customers "Linux isn't good with Microsoft products." Big surprise. The real fun part though will be when the "independent" studies start confirming Bill's claims. You know, the studies done from independent research firms...that just happen to be 95% bankrolled by Microsoft...
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
Linux and OSS are compatible with less than 1% of the viruses, worms, and trojans that have been created by third party Windows developers! If you're running Linux (or even Firefox on Windows) you're denied the rich environment of advertising available to users of MSFT products!
-- The reason it's called the right wing? Irony.
I've been trying to get all these email viruses to
work on my Linux box, but it won't run them. About time
someone had to point out the poor interoperability of
these important programs. Until something is done
to make it easy to run these programs with only a mouse
click, Linux will only be second rate.
So does this mean Microsoft are going to fully adopt Open standards? Surely they aren't going to keep everything totally closed and proprietary if they are aiming for a good level of interoperability? That would be obviously hypocritical!
So when someone designs a virus for outlook express it can even work when opened at the hotmail website with internet explorer.
Um... so? Don't you know the golden rule? He who has the gold makes the rules.
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
Additional note, Must learn to use "Preview"
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This is something I wrote a bit ago for some friends. I'm sure it nicks bits from other things i have read on the internet over the years, never the less....
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I mean look at all the problems people have using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
LAMP will never catch on. Nope. Never.
Good thing my website doesn't use any of tho... oh, wait.
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To support his thesis on how "interoperable" windows is, he also mentioned the fact that the vast majority of over 20000 worms run on ALL versions (95,97,98,ME,NT,XP...) even when windows' own software doesn't. Persistent buffer overflow is the crux of windows' interoperability.
Bill Gates Claims OSS Has Poor Interoperability
Well, that's good. But last I checked, OSS was deprecated in the Linux kernel (2.6+) and pretty much everyone has switched to ALSA.
Bill Gates is a troll.
As opposed to just plain bad operability?
Funny you should mention that,
:)
just a day or two ago, a secretary in the office couldn't open up a power-point file sent to her by the boss. They were both created on different versions of Microsoft Office, but it woud crash every time she opened it.
I had her send it to me, opened it up in OpenOffice and re-saved it in a generic powerpoint format. I sent it back to her and it now works fine!
So yes, with a little effort - different versions of Microsoft Office can interpolate