Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove

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Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 17, 2005 @05:49AM from the this-is-your-brain-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "XYZ has an interview with Tony Bove, author of the upcoming book, "Just Say No to Microsoft". From the article: 'With this book Bove intends to help readers rid Microsoft from their life- this is easier said that done, but it is certainly possible. The book goes on to list alternatives to the Microsoft programs on which people have become dependent and probably think they cannot give up.'"

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Let me be the first to say... by rovingeyes · 2005-10-17 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

My goal is to provide a road map for using alternatives, or the equivalent of a "12-step method" for getting off Microsoft software (as if it were an addiction)
From experience, any thing more than 11 steps is not worth it!
1. Re:Let me be the first to say... by jimbolauski · 2005-10-17 06:10 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm going to need all 12 steps to get ride of solitare.
  
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  Knowledge = Power
  P= W/t
  t=Money
  Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Employees in Redmond...... by 8127972 · 2005-10-17 05:51 · Score: 3, Funny

..... Should be on the lookout for flying chairs.

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This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Re:adbsurd by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-17 05:58 · Score: 1, Funny

I support your claim in some parts, but man... prepare to be flamed by the /. sheep, I feel sorry for you.
Tell me About It by th1ckasabr1ck · 2005-10-17 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

There was a /. story a while back requesting comments to answer the question: "Why do you still use Windows?". I posted that I still use Windows because Visual Studio is the best IDE I have ever worked with, and since a huge amount of my time is spent programming, then Windows is the best platform for me.
The damn thing got modded +5 Funny. Some people just refuse to believe that Microsoft makes good products I guess.
1. Re:Tell me About It by SourKAT · 2005-10-17 07:18 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The damn thing got modded +5 Funny.
  Now, that is funny! LOL
Re:Props to Tony Bove... by billieja2 · 2005-10-17 06:15 · Score: 2, Funny

he listed "expert using iTunes" on his resume...
Linux' Witnesses by Spy+der+Mann · 2005-10-17 06:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Most of us can't, and don't really want to "just say no"

Hmm... that "just say no" got a weird idea in my head, please forgive me if it's too silly.

*Ring!*
-Hello?
- Good morning! *big smile* We've come to share the Word of GNU, and his prophet St. Ignutius.
- Ah, you're the Linux' Witnesses, right? No, thanks.
- But, you don't understand, we've come to save your soul! :(
- That's nonsense, I've been running Windows and nothing bad has happened to me!
- Ah, but haven't you had to deal with your computer running slow due to viruses? It's the prophecy fulfilled!
- I said NO THANKS!
- But Windows is the Whore of Redmond!
- ARGH!!!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!
- *gasp* THE DEVIL'S SPAWN! RUN!!!

(Inside the house...)
- Who was it, hon?
- BAH, Some Linux zealots.

(Outside the house, there's a mailbox, and the inscription reads: S. Ballmer and Family)
Re:What about Microsoft Project? by east+coast · 2005-10-17 07:02 · Score: 2, Funny

it's only available for one platform: Microsoft Windows. Not OSX, Not Linux, Not BSD, Not Sun, Not Palm, Not Amiga, etc.

Ah, but that is where you are wrong, my friend. I have been working night and day and soon I will be releasing a port of MSP to Commodore 64, Vic 20, TRS-80 model I and on the back burner I have a working port for the Atari 2600.

I figure my Atari port will hit the market no later than March 2006. The others should be out in time for the holiday shopping season.

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Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Re:2 Problems by dracvl · 2005-10-17 09:14 · Score: 3, Funny

a pseudosocialist utopia in which all of us are gainfully employed and paid a hundred thousand dollars to work 30 hour weeks developing beautiful open source software that we give away and nobody buys, and all music and entertainment is produced through the honest labor of talented people upon whom we benevolently bestow voluntary payments for their work, and whose labors of love are distributed for free through the software channels that we were paid lots of money to develop. Oh, and Bush isn't president. And global warming stopped. And we all ride bikes to our jobs.
Wow, I think you just described Norway. ;)