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Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy

Posted by Zonk on from the a-little-innovation-here-a-little-bad-press-there dept.

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. THIRD POST! by matth · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    THIRD POST!

  2. Re:Mr. Kettle, you have a phone call on line 1... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's a Mr. Pot, Something about you being black.

    There's no need to turn this into a race thing

  3. MARTIN Taylor you fucking idiots! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goddamnit can't anybody there be troubled to put the bong down for the three fucking seconds it would take to proofread and check submissions? What the fuck is it exactly that you are paid to do, anyway?

  4. MUSLIMS BOMB LONDON... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... again.

    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!

      --
      Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
    2. Re:MUSLIMS BOMB LONDON... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      then it proves what an ignorant, intolerant, religious-hatred preaching moron you really are.
      I'm an atheist and couldn't care less what Muslims think about the Holy Trinity. LOL

      I also don't care if they cook smelly foods, dress their women in tents, or dirty up the office's bathroom sinks by washing their feet (and genitals!) in them 5 times a day.

      What I DO care about is the political ideology of Islam, which is a straight up imperialism that will not stop until it has conquered, converted, or enslaved the whole world. This is the meaning of jihad, and I don't care whether it's pursued by invasion, terrorism, or daawa. I like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of expression too much. Look at your own country and how all your freedoms are being slowly eroded: national ID cards, a religious "vilification" law, and more government surveillance on the way because the BBC, the Guardian, and all your cultural-political elites keep telling you Muslims have an unquestionable right to keep coming to your country. You're on your way to becoming the next Yugoslavia.

      The fact is people like you have been so brainwashed by political correctness you've forgotten why "racism", and "bigotry" are wrong in the first place. They're wrong because they're an irrational form of scape-goating; but there's nothing wrong with hating a group that wants to destroy your freedoms and civilization. Some immigrants (Hindus, Chinese, Christian African) are good. But when you let in Muslims you're letting in invaders, not immigrants.

      But morons like you who are so stupid that you voted in a president who has offered up human sacrifice just to make Exxon a few more bucks are just pathetic.
      Which is why I didn't vote for Bush in 2004 LOL
      Ever since his "religion of peace" BS I realized Bush was nothing but a Saudi pimp. Let the Muslims live in their part of the world (and even keep Syria, Egypt, and all the other lands they stole in the first wave of jihad invasions) and we'll live in ours. Separation, not this "invade the world, invite the world" neon-con BS.
    3. Re:MUSLIMS BOMB LONDON... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Until normal people realize Christianity is not compatible with a free society expect more such "enriching" cross-cultural exchanges...
      Uh-huh, so do you always argue by sarcastically reversing what the other guy just said? What are you, a 12 year old? LOL
      An occupier is an occupier. Get the fuck out, no US citizens will be endangered.
      What you don't realize, youngling, is that we infidels are all occupiers in one way or another. Ask bin Laden abou "al-Andalus" LOL . Look at southern Thailand, Chechnya, the Philippines, Kashmir. And how long before Marseilles and the outer ring of Paris pass into the Dar al-Islam and must be "liberated"?
    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.

      --
      Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
    5. Re:MUSLIMS BOMB LONDON... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Well, I'm sorry, I really pity you and your warped ideals... I'd rather become an Islamic state than suffer the consequences of being sucked into American globalization
      Ahem, what was that about warped ideals? A sad thing happened to the left in my lifetime. Once it stood for something, but then it became so consumed with resentment after the wrong side won the cold war that it joined hands with the Islamofascists and put civilization to sleep for the next 1000 years.
    6. 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...

      --
      -- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
  5. 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.

  6. 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.