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Desktop Linux Survey Results Published
An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Development Labs has published preliminary results from its desktop Linux survey, which had 3,300 responses. The month-long online survey focused on determining the key issues driving Linux on the desktop, as well as the major barriers to Linux desktop adoption. 'What was most surprising to us was probably the top two reasons given for deploying Linux on the desktop,' OSDL's Principal Analyst Dave Rosenberg said. 'It's not TCO (total cost of ownership), or security, or lack of license fees. It was 'employees requesting Linux (user demand)' and because 'my competitors have successfully deployed Linux,' he added."
Ok, this is what's happening:
my parents are out with friends, and they'll be back any minute so I REALLY need your help.
Heres some backround:
I volunteer on my sister's softball team, and so yea, whatever I meet this girl, her name is Michelle, and we've been going out for a while. We have a lot in common..... anyways....
So she came over like an hour ago, and I really want to lose my virginity, so I ask her to have sex.
She said: "No, no I can't it's not right" but I told her "Don't worry I know what I'm doing, plus I'll give you two n64 games if you say yes."
So I gave her Donkey Kong Racing, and Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball, and then she goes to my room. She's a bit confused and scared.
Then I think to myself "I need lube, right? I heard some guys saying you have to lube up or else it might not fit properly..
So I have no lube, but I really want to lose my virginity. I grab some butter from the fridge, but it's cold, it won't melt, so I microwaved it for like 5 minutes and i put it in a glass and poured it on her cooter, and now she's saying I burned it.
I don't know what to do, my parents are going to be back any minute and she's in the bathroom crying. Please help I am really really scared. Any idea how to shut her up? Should I give her another n64 game?
What general user of windows would ever be subject to a Linux forum? I hope that my employees (on ms software) are trolling the net for reasons to say that they could be more effective on open-source rather than M$.
The general user is really heated about this MS v. Open source issue, every day someone has come in early to put a flaming Office 2003 cd on our office's front steps and then demand that we hire a whole new staff to support linux. We get shit when we upgrade from one version of Office to another because it LOOKS different, not even because it ACTS different, and we are a HUGE company (the HUGE was only to show that we are not a 10 person organization working on eBay... you have definitely heard of us, we are "Kind of a big deal" -- always funny)
Who wouldn't support linux\oss becoming the standard? Or anything that is ubiquitous and user friendly... Hopefully the next volume of "The Tipping Point" re-addresses this issue. Won't be long before Microsoft pulls their head out of their ass or O.S. just blows them out of the water.