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The Truth About Linux and Windows
petrus4 writes "Groklaw has an update on the Laura DiDio saga. Apparently, her complaints about "Linux extremists" notwithstanding, cooler heads than the usual suspects are asking questions about her research. A very interesting read, and one which will hopefully encourage corporate readers to regard the Yankee Group's findings with the requisite metric ton of salt in the future."
This should settle all these arguments going around once and for all.
If I've learnt anything during my life, it is that you should just ignore anyone who claims to know the truth about something.
Both companies are American, right? Profit!
We all dance, we all sing.
-The Streets
OS 1 is better than OS 2
Personally I like OS/390.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
Why does Truth, Linux and Windows in the same sentence seems so awfully wrong to me?
A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
And in other news... Corporations don't care about you! *gasp*
The more i read that name the more my mind begins to replace Didio with Dildo.
And the more i read what Dildio has to say the more i think my dyslexia is right
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
We will have competition indefinitely. And this is a good good thing.
/.er embrace economics. It's like hearing a Mac zealot say that 2 mouse buttons are better than one.
It's so nice to see a
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
Haha! The term "Linux-extremist" is redundant. The very definition of a "Linux-user" already contains the connotation of "extremist," inasmuch as all the users are zealous users and defenders of Linux. I have never met a lukewarm Linux user.
Well, think of it like this: we stepped outside, noticed the house was on fire, and we're trying to tell you to get the fuck out of there while you still can. Yes, I'd say we're a pretty zealous lot.
Ahhh Haa! But I ignore your post, and therefor it does not exist!
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Yup, exactly. We all know that on average, operating systems are equivalent in their quality and usefulness.
Anybody that tells you that Solaris is better than MS-DOS, or MS-DOS is better than Solaris is, at best, simply wrong.
[I can't wait until Linux] has at least ONE application that is useful for my business.
VMware runs on Linux... ;-)
Thus, I know that a server would require a high-paid consultant to set up.
Dude, you really need to have a talk with my boss then. Tell him he needs to pay me more. I set up and maintain a few linux servers and firewalls here where I work and I'm sure as hell not high paid.
Slackware
I've personally tried about a dozen times, and none of those installs worked correctly...
Uhm, I wouldn't admit that here. Makes people question your bona fides.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
or some kid in high school who needs a little extra weekend cash...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Absolutely. Why, there are over 3 machines with 640K/2Floppy/8088 left out there, and MS-DOS is way better than Solaris on those.
Personally I never had much use for a separate OS anyway - I just boot up to my BASIC prompt and start in with the REMs and GOTOs.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
They wouldn't have hire him to shill if he didn't know what he was talking about, right?
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
...I'm sure you can find a teenager at the local elementary school...
You might want to rethink this. This usually means they've been held back a year.
Translation: "Linux is too expensive 'cause I'm retarded"
Woah.
Laura DiDio denounced these penguins.
Where's the "-1, Car Analogy" mod when you need it?
One thing that always rubs me the wrong way is how proponents of Open Source tend to refer to Ms. Didio as "didiot." Being dishonest or even disingenuous does not neccessarily indicate a lack of intelligence. In fact, she's probably making good money doing very little real work; one could consider her smart.
A much better name would be "Dildio" - seeing as she provides an artificial source of stimulation and pleasure to those whos normal equipment is... lacking (you do know why they call it "Micro-Soft"?).
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After surveying a number of IT professionals about what they thought of Laura Didio.
75% said she was a stupid b%$^*
12.5% said she was a mindless whore.
12.5% said "who's Laura Didio".
Powerpoint presentations are currently being edited. This is a 3rd party survey so we can't give out any particulars of the survey or how it was presented. But we can tell you that no corporate sponsorship was involved.
Simple.
Management is about lying about the need for management. It's primate hierarchy in organizational terms.
They therefore love liars who reinforce that lie.
Humans will ALWAYS - ALWAYS - make the wrong decision given two or more options. They will do this to spite the person with the correct option.
Because if that person is "right", then they're "wrong" - and if they're "wrong", they're dead - and that can't be allowed. So they're "right" and the other person is "wrong".
Human psychology is that simple. It's only the EXPRESSION of that psychology that occasionally gets complex.
No manager can make a correct decision because that action by itself conflicts with his primary purpose.
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