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Microsoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points
DesiVideoGamer writes "Over at Overclock.net, a user has posted screen-shots from Microsoft's 'ExpertZone' training course entitled 'Linux vs. Windows 7.' This course is available to BestBuy employees and will make them eligible for a $10 copy of Windows 7 upon completion." The screenshots linked show at least some creative interpretations of the state of Linux vs. Windows on a wide range of things, from media playback and video conferencing to ease of updates to (of all things) keeping your PCs "safer." Most of the claims, though, aren't concrete enough to be perfectly refuted. Writes DesiVideoGamer, "I think I now know why, when I enter BestBuy, the employees say the odd lies that they do."
Roy Schestowitz sends his regards, asshole.
No, a company should not slander their competitors to do more business. Propaganda results in an overall decline of the happiness of almost all consumers.
Umm, you just described every pro-Linux website I've ever seen. Slandering Microsoft is a major tool in the Linux advocate's handbag. Your ignorance and hypocrisy make me physically ill.
It's not slander if it's the truth.
I'm glad you guys gave gotten over the year of the Linux desktop after 7 or so years. The year of the MS shill, on the other hand, is even more annoying.
> If you think the Obama administration are Marxist, then you don't know WTF a Marxist is...
Didn't really want to go there today.... but what the hell.
Ok, lets start with President Obama. Go read his autobiographies[1] where he spells it out his preference for Marxist professors himself. Then lets look up his family tree and see what shakes out. Daddy[2] gets tossed from a Socialist government in Kenya for pushing too hard for redistribution of wealth. What is left of socialism on the whole left/right thing? Yea, thought so. So now lets look at Mom, who met Obama Sr. in a Russian language class. Guess Pravda reads better in the original Russian or something. If one is being overly charitable the best you could call Ms. Dunham is a leftie hippie chick who apparently never grew up and I'm not that charitable. So finally we move on to the maternal grandparents who did most of the raising of young Obama. Not much doubt that they were Communists which makes the president a second generation red diaper baby. And this is the very short version of the case for President Obama being a Communist, there is much more awaiting your curiosity and Google is your friend. Just don't believe everything ya read out there without cross checking as some of it gets really crazy.
Now lets look at the people in his administration since, as The One Himself said, we should look to his associates to understand how he will govern. Van Jones, the Green Jobs Czar will soon be leaving because his history has become public, among which is is self confession to being a Communist. That whole controversy will have blown up and be resolved by a resignation while the number of references in the MSM probably remains zero. Consider that and wonder just how much ELSE you believe to be true because you read the NYT, watch CNN, etc and consider yourself informed is bogus or even worse never even knew about.
But the Internet is here now and you can educate yourself. Just go down the list of high officials in this administration and stick their names into Google one at a time. See how many radicals, socialists, marxists, communists, progressives, fascists, Chicago gangsters, etc. crawl out of the woodwork practically anywhere you look in this administration. And the situation isn't much better across the way in Congress, we really need to find 535 cells in a Federal Prison for that whole hive of scum and villany.
[1] WTF does it say about a guy when he writes an autobiography before doing a god damned thing and then writes another one after doing not much else. Or do you believe Jack Cashill's theory that Bill Ayers actually wrote Dreams and thus Obama didn't actually admit to being a Marxist. Doubt that answer would actually make things any better politically though.
[2] While a dirtbag of a father, multiple wives at the same time, abandoning young Barry to head off to Harvard, etc. the young Obama still makes Obama Sr. the focus of his first autobiography indicating his Communist views probably had a large influence on the boy.
Democrat delenda est
Despite popular belief, most Linux users don't hate or berate Microsoft. This is a stereotype. Remove it from your brain.
This might be true, but unfortunately it is the 5-10% who genuinely are rabid, who are also the most vocal. Hence, that's what we primarily see.
I'm sick and tired of this new fad that Slashdot seems is goes through, which is mostly a mentality that everyone here thinks Linux is perfect. No, they don't. Nobody does.
Here's the problem. You quite possibly are one of the few sane, rational, non-autistic Linux users who exist; I will concede the possibility, however unlikely it might be.
However, whenever the rest of us try and accept that idea that maybe, possibly, some Linux users are normal, Stallman's drones have a disturbing tendency to immediately start clawing their way up through the ground in large numbers.
Other than when we visit Slashdot, reminding ourselves to ensure that we always pack a mallet, possibly some holy water, and a wooden stake, how exactly do you suggest that we deal with that problem?