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Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-hostile-territory dept.

coondoggie writes "Microsoft's Sam Ramji is like a turkey knocking on Thanksgiving's door. Ramji has the unenviable task of stretching his neck out into the open source world as Microsoft's representative. On top of it, his employer has preheated the oven with years of hubris, sleights of hand and broken promises. Ramji's Sisyphean task was evident last week in Portland at the Open Source Conference (OSCon) and will likely be fuel for chatter at next week's LinuxWorld gathering in San Francisco."

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  1. Re:Don't be a Nevile Chamberlain. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    One bad apple bribed someone and a couple other countries appealed the ruling. That still doesn't explain 90%+ voting in favor of OOXML. Get a grip Bruce. Fight your battle but do so on intellectually honest grounds.

  2. Re:HAVE you tried it? by tha_mink · · Score: -1, Troll

    Looks serious. HAVE you tried the latest Ubuntu, or even the second latest?

    Yeah I have. And the third and forth latest too. Last time I checked it still didn't run SQL 2005, Exchange, office 2007, etc. I think that it's funny (or cute even) to think that linux is ever going to beat windows. (at least in the near future)

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    You'll have that sometimes...
  3. Re:Shades of Gray? by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait, you're bitching about Microsoft not supporting X11, something that just doesn't work with their windowing system? Are you seriously for real?

    And they support NFS just fucking fine, cretin. Here's a HOWTO. They support NIS, too. Here's another HOWTO.

    Fucking freetards.

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    "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
  4. Re:HAVE you tried it? by richlv · · Score: 0, Troll

    * Try using open office and embedding pictures in a word processing document, only to find that Microsoft Word (which everyone else at the office uses) either can't load the pictures or the pictures come out scaled to thumbnail size. But, you have to export it in like Word 95 format to at least get the thumbnails.

    can't comment on previous claims as i haven't experienced such situations. but i'll comment on these two :)
    this seems to be a very weird problem. is it really present in latest oo.org versions ?
    the only reasonable explanation for missing pictures that i can think of is pictures inserted as links, not embedded - hardly a format problem. and it's easy to solve - edit->links, select all, break.
    the "thumbnail" problem, never seen it. do you have a testcase that i could try ?

    * He can continually wonder WHY THE HELL DOES FLASH KEEP LOCKING UP FIREFOX? Seriously, after a few LiveLeak or YouTube videos, you have to force-quite the browser and reload it. WTF?

    ooooh yeah. wtf is a good question. but it should be asked to adobe. hi, adobe, you suck.
    flash plugin has been a joke on linux forever. in opera, it memleaked like hell. alsa support was late show for... a long time. latest versions indeed slow down and crash/hang firefox. what is it, adobe, can't you get your act together and fix the damn thing ? announce a public test sprint, ask for user input - i'[m sure you will get a lot of useful debugging information. if only you were interested.
    well, that's a classic example of reliance on a single vendor and closed source software.

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    Rich