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Following Bill Gates' Linux Attack Money
UnderScan writes "After researching this material for about three years, Tom Adelstein tracks Microsoft's anti-Linux lobbying money: "Microsoft has unparalleled influence throughout the Federal government. On the cover of a recent edition of VarBusiness Magazine dated June 26, 2005 the editors presented a large headline which read: 'It's A Microsoft World. Five years after running afoul of the Feds, Microsoft is as powerful as ever. Pushing a platform instead of products could make it stronger still. Why nothing seems to stop it.'""
Nothing will stop it ... short of a taleban takeower. Almost make you wanna support BinL
Thank you, you just brightened my day. I feel reassured that I really am that much smarter than most people in the world...
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
2) That same firm does some lobbying for the BSA and has some Microsoft connections.
Pretty thin stuff for three years work, I'd say, especially since if the Tom DeLay stuff hadn't just fallen out it would be even thinner. The biggest thing I can see here is a bit of nepotism on how the BSA chooses its lobbyists; maybe some of you will lose sleep over that.
Anyway, connection to Linux -- zero.
By the way: Why the coyness about referring to Ralph Nader ("a well-known consumer advocate") by name? This Adelstein guy seems like a bit of a nut, so I imagine the reason is nutty, but I can't quite guess what it might be.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
It is not about Linux vs Microsoft, it is about closed source vs open source. If you do not know what this difference means, you should not be allowed to vote, let alone operate a computer on the internet unsupervised.
Peter
This is obviously a troll straight from redmond.
>To make this short and simple, virtually NOTHING >worked properly under
>Linux.
Linux is the kernel. I guess you forget to install one of the various distro's that use Linux.
>Video cards could not get maximum resolution.
Do you mean 800x600, the resolution I find most windows users running?
Capture programs, for my ATI All In WOnder and Video camera did not
work. In fact my ATI cards advanced features (remote control amongst
other things) didn't work at all.
Of course your programs didn't work. They run on Windows, not GNU/Linux.
>My printer (Brother all in one fax/copier/printer) did not work.
You need Windows to use a copier? LJC help us.
>My DSL connection did not work and when I called support they said
that Linux was not supported.
You had to call your DSL provider to get your connection working and you actually told them you were running Linux. You fool.
>My mp3 and mpeg video and music files played but >they skipped
>horribly.
Maybe in 1999, but not in 2005.
>I couldn't log into my router via konqueror to change/view settings.
Of course not, from above we see that you don't understand networking. Why would you have to change your router settings anyway.
>MANY, MANY, MANY web pages did not display correctly.
Sure they didn't.
>And it goes on and on for pages,but the bottom >line is that Linux
>lasted about 3 days in my house before I ditched >it and went back to
>the Windows versions I was using.
Good for you. Enjoy having less money.
>Thank goodness for Ghost which mad it easy to do.
Now try taking the hardrive in one computer and putting it in another one. Can you say "barf windows barf"?