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Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy

MacDaffy writes "Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, Michael Taylor, continues Microsoft's press blitz against Open Source in general and Linux in particular in a CNET Interview. He says of Linux: 'You can build it, design it, and it will work great. The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'"

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  1. Re:MUSLIMS BOMB LONDON... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Don't be an ignorant racist pratt!

    Terrorists bombed London, the Islamic community does not consider those people as "Muslim".

    Spread your racist comments and hate in the sordid little gutters where ignorant half-wits like yourself normally gather, not here amongst intelligent people.

    You're not even enough of a "man" that you can post these comments openly - you're a scummy, cowering little coward who only has the guts to say anything behind anonymity.

    You're pathetic!

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  2. Re:This is true... by SQLz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That depends on your definition of the word "throes" is, as in 'last throes of the insurgency'. At least someone's shiftyness doens't account for thousands dead.

  3. Re:This is true... by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, my favorite is watching the current administration try to explain away Karl Rove.

    "Well, the law says that it is illegal to disclose a CIA agent's name. But he never said 'Valerie Plame.' He said, 'Joe Wilson's wife.' So he didn't do anything wrong..."

    Remember this, if you ever want to 'out' a CIA agent. "See that woman over there? No, the blonde one. Right. She's a CIA agent."

    I mean, Clinton trying to dance around whether he got a blow-job from an intern was funny. But what makes this truly classic is the Bush administration's "We're Straight Talkers--None of that weaselly Clinton crap" suddenly turning into the same weasels.

  4. Re:MUSLIMS BOMB LONDON... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, I'm sorry, I really pity you and your warped ideals...

    We agree on something at least - the sooner we get that idiot Blair out, the sooner we'll have a decent leader who'll take us fully into Europe and we'll be a bigger unified state than you Americans.

    I'd rather become an Islamic state than suffer the consequences of being sucked into American globalization under your war-mongering leaders that only care about the dollar.

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  5. Re:MUSLIMS BOMB LONDON... by circusboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    just to make Exxon a few more bucks
    <sarcasm>because we all know that what really counts is that the free markets should flourish unimpeded by government control...[cough]subsidy[/cough]</sarcasm>

    it seems a pity to have to be so explicit, but things do seem to get misunderstood around here...

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