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Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?
ruphus13 writes "Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, claims that the company is very close to the $30M mark, at which point, they will be a self-sustaining company. While people feel that this should not worry Microsoft, the real question is whether a 10,000 person effort on a failure like Vista can actually be the paradigm of a long-term strategy. From the article: 'Microsoft had 10,000 people [the article is unclear whether these were all developers, or administrative and support staff were factored in] working on Vista for a five year period ... huge profits in any given year can mean relatively little five years on. Canonical's self-sustaining revenue may not be threatening — but it leaves one wondering how sustainable Microsoft's development process really is.'"
Coon, coon, black baboon,
Brutal, worthless, thieving goon,
Often high, thrives in jail,
His welfare check is in the mail,
Some 40 offspring had been had,
Not one will ever call him dad,
And yet he hollers day and night:
"I blames de white man fo my plight!
It's him spreads trash all round my shack!
It's him what makes me smoke dis crack!
He push my kind to burn and loot,
And sends de po-lice dat we shoot!
But inch by inch we takin' hold,
Like when de white bread starts to mold,
We'll overrun yo homes and soon-
Dey be only fit fo de blackassed coon!"
Kike, kike, weasel-like,
Scheming since a hooknosed tyke,
Counts his pennies day and night,
Squeals if one rolls out of sight,
Promotes a thousand social ills,
For which you'll have to foot the bills
Eventually, in love he falls,
And weds a schrew who swipes his balls,
Soon this pair of whining scum,
Will beat their breasts just like a drum,
And lie about the loved ones lost,
In a myth they call "The Holocaust",
Coarse and pushy, greedy and trite...
Beware the Jewish Parasite!
Where are the ads (with or without Jerry Seinfeld) and the glossy brochures at Best Buy?
They're generally not allowed by Microsoft's OEM agreements. you can only advertise Windows or you pay retail and go out of business. You're not likely to see a Linux ad anywhere that sells a Microsoft OS any time soon.
This is a lie. You are a liar.
There are hundreds of other competing sources doing a better job. /. should rather stick to what it can do well.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Wow, that has to be the most fucking ignorant statement I've ever seen. Try installing Psi for use with an XMPP server. It's just like installing any other Windows (or Linux or OS X) app out there, and works pretty much the same as any other app. Usability is a function of the team coding the app, not the toolkit used to build it.
And Wine... when's the last time you tried it? On Ubuntu currently, you install the package like any other (a simple process), and if your Windows app is supported, you double click your fucking icon. Just like in Windows. It's really that simple, and I was pleasantly surprised when I found it had gotten that easy. The only challenge to using a piece of software "easily" is getting it supported properly by Wine.
Pull your head out of your ass before posting ignorant tripe like this. And who modded this shit up?
The API itself is garbage
The supporting tools are garbage
and of course the obnoxious dipshits that support it like you are the final nail it Qt coffin.