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Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-cycles-repeat dept.

Glyn Moody writes "That's what Nikolai Pryanishnikov, president of Microsoft Russia, seems to think. Quoted in the context of continuing questions about Russia's plans to create its own national operating system based on GNU/Linux, Pryanishnikov said [via Google Translate]: 'We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS and, moreover, is at the end of its life cycle.' An off-the-cuff comment, or something more?"

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  1. In Soviet Russia... by Stregano · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...good OS dies first

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    1. Re:In Soviet Russia... by drumcat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Linux reboots you.

    2. Re:In Soviet Russia... by CRCulver · · Score: 4, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, GNU Hurd triumphs over Linux!

    3. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

      Lifecycle ENDS YOU!

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    4. Re:In Soviet Russia... by marcello_dl · · Score: 5, Funny

      FUD spreads Microsoft Russian (aka MSSR) exec.

      I think I know why MSSR is depicting Linux as a end of line OS: I hear MS has a beta of an operating system, has been in the works for a loong time (beta 1.0 came shortly after the first Mac). One of these days it will be good for release. Possibly.

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    5. Re:In Soviet Russia... by arbitraryaardvark · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia?
      Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime.
      The other's a computer company.

    6. Re:In Soviet Russia... by mangu · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia?
      Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime.
      The other's a computer company.

      I knew they had privatized everything when the Soviet Union fell, but this is ridiculous!

      No way they turned Russia into a computer company!

  2. Nonstory, sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in, WIndows person says non-windows product will fail! Gets frontpage on slashdot!

  3. President of Microsoft Russia by stagg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, the president of Microsoft Russia should be a reliable, trustworthy source for this kind of analysis, right? Right?

  4. what will it be called? by digitalsushi · · Score: 4, Funny

    PinkOS.

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  5. EVEN AS LINUX BEGAN... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    We knew that fools would Russian, to try and Finnish it off.

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    1. Re:EVEN AS LINUX BEGAN... by masmullin · · Score: 5, Funny

      but I... cant... help... falling in love with gnu!

  6. Re:Google Translate by windcask · · Score: 5, Funny

    He could also be saying "We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS, and moreover, is the ass of a living bicycle."

    or

    "Die, capitalist pig."

  7. Linux NT by perpenso · · Score: 4, Funny

    All open source projects evolve to the point where the current developers want to throw away all the code and start again.

    I'm expecting Linux NT, an entirely new kernel using a microkernel architecture. :-)

  8. Re:Google Translate by sheehaje · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This is news?"

    It has the words Linux, Microsoft, and Russia in it. News? This to Slashdot is like the Ark of the Covenant is to religion.

  9. Re:And Windows is? by cforciea · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then they discarded 95/98

    That's a funny way of describing the Windows ME production process, but after a couple of seconds thought, I think it is accurate.

  10. Re:Google Translate by LifesABeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    After listening to Nikolai's comments, a more accurate translation turned out to be, "If 'I' use Linux, 'I' will be at the end of 'My' Life-Cycle." It's a common translation mistake.

  11. Re:It's Hindsight by slapout · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought RMS's primary goal was to ensure that everyone called it GNU/Linux :-)

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