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OSS on Windows the Next Big Thing?
Lam1969 writes "Linux geeks and Microsoft have similar interests, says Computerworld: They both are interested in seeing open-source software succeed. Linux geeks admit that the open source OS isn't necessarily a better platform for important applications, and Microsoft recognizes that many of its customers are using open-source applications, and doesn't want to alienate them." From the article: "Faced with the allure of inexpensive open-source applications among its core customer base of small to midsize businesses, Microsoft has toned down its rhetoric. 'It's a myth that open-source and Windows can't work together. Customers just aren't religious about these things,' said Ryan Gavin, a director of platform strategy for Microsoft."
Linux geeks admit that the open source OS isn't necessarily a better platform for important applications
Okay, that's it. Turn your card in at the door. We never want to see you again.
Inhale deeply, put your arms in a circle and say "Embraaaace", then exhale slowly pushing your arms out and say "Exteeeend"
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Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP - WIMP
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
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Putting insecure code that hackers can easily break into on an insecure OS? That'll NEVER work! You need a secure OS under all the insecure open source stuff to have real security. Because, you see, Linux is more secure than Windows since the code isn't ope... oh wait.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
But wait, what if bash WAS a kernel? What if we re-wrote the Linux kernel in Bash? Hmmmm? Linux would run everywhere you had bash! It would be a bash kernel! Now that doesn't seem so dumb now, huh?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
"But OOo. It'll be a cold day in Hell before Microsoft recommends that on Windows."
:)
What comes to mind:
PRESS: So, if it's a choice between a user who can't afford an MS Office license pirating MS Office, which would still keep your userbase up, or installing a legitimately free-of-cost alternative so as not to break the law and make a small short-term ding in your profits...what would you prefer?
MS: Erm...
MS, effing cornered.
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Oh great. That means that Windows will be bashing itself. But wait ....
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.