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IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like IBM isn't much of a friend of Microsoft's anymore. Today IBM announced an extension of its Microsoft-Free PC effort together with Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This is the same thing that was announced a few weeks back for Africa (a program that began a year ago), and now it's available in the US. The big push is that IBM claims it will cost up to $2,000 for a business to move to Windows 7. They argue that moving to Linux is cheaper."
That fascist pig won't be happy until the government controls every single aspect of every single human endeavor on the planet. WAAAAA, stop asking hard questions of the Anointed One! He doesn't like it! WAAA, Democrats control the White House, both houses of Congress, and the media, and they STILL haven't completed their health care takeover because they can't all agree on how best to screw the middle class. WAAAA, we'll just blame Republicans even though we have a majority in the House and 60 members in the Senate. WAAAAA!!!
I'm so enjoying watching that douchebag of an affirmative action experiment gone terribly wrong go down in flames. It warms my heart to watch young first-time voters crushed to learn that their free government education has failed them and that President != Emperor of the Universe.
And it's roll-your-own support with Linux. You have to rely on elitist coders, whereas with Microsoft you pay a fixed price but at least know where you stand with an actual business contract.
If I really wanted to, I could fit a minimal-but-working Linux system on a floppy disk.
My custom-compiled kernel is 2.6 MB after optimize-for-size. I think you're in the wrong decade.
Of course, I don't consider it "working" unless it has all the drivers I need. YMMV.
Linux skilled coders typically require premium prices and are not as economical to employ. Or predictable might be a better word. Anyway, if we can pick one up, we will, but don't allow them to advance. In general we pass. Prima donnas.
In-fighting is AWESOME!!!
Sure you love open source, but you don't love open source ENOUGH!
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