This is all about power. (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14, @01:49AM EDT (#443)
This is all about power. We IT workers love linux primarily because it provides us with power; power to customize, power to optimize, power to inovate. In other words, power to add significant value to a computer solution and, in turn, power to damand reward for that value. This scares business people. Microsoft plays to that fear. Business people want to comoditize IT workers. Microsoft has done more than any other entity to help them.
To a CFO, a person that is difficult to replace is a liability. IT workers should be like any other cog in the corporate infrastructure: easy and relatively cheap to replace. Microsoft stole the ability of the IT worker to inovate; to use his/her knowledge and brains to add value; value that any old cog payed minimum wage could not add. It is a devils bargin. Business has ceeded power to Microsoft, primarily to keep its own IT workers in check. How can an IT worker demand a premium wage when any idiot can set up an NT server?
When Mr. Firstbrook says that "linux should be shunned." He's really saying: "don't let your IT workers get upity, even if it does save you big dollars."
Quit acting like you're cock of the walk. Nobody is. And I've had enough of your God-damned arrogance and trying to make me look like a retard. So FUCK OFF.
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This is all about power. (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14, @01:49AM EDT (#443)
This is all about power. We IT workers love linux primarily because it provides us with power; power to customize, power to optimize, power to inovate. In other words, power to add significant value to a computer solution and, in turn, power to damand reward for that value. This scares business people. Microsoft plays to that fear. Business people want to comoditize IT workers. Microsoft has done more than any other entity to help them.
To a CFO, a person that is difficult to replace is a liability. IT workers should be like any other cog in the corporate infrastructure: easy and relatively cheap to replace. Microsoft stole the ability of the IT worker to inovate; to use his/her knowledge and brains to add value; value that any old cog payed minimum wage could not add. It is a devils bargin. Business has ceeded power to Microsoft, primarily to keep its own IT workers in check. How can an IT worker demand a premium wage when any idiot can set up an NT server?
When Mr. Firstbrook says that "linux should be shunned." He's really saying: "don't let your IT workers get upity, even if it does save you big dollars."
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Pronounciation OT (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14, @01:50AM EDT (#444)
Torvalds is the inventor of Linux (pronounced "Lynn-ix"),
Oh sweet Jesus.
Pronouncing it like a Finn (yes I'm a Finn) would go like: Li as in "Lee" with a short e and nux which ryhmes with "Tux".
Like Linus does in Swedish: just lengthen the e in "Lee" and put emphasis on the Nux, sorta like "leeNux".
I just can't get my mouth around "Lynn-ix" to resemble any "correct" pronounciation.
This article is so full of hot air and shit I don't want to be near it when it explodes.
I have never heard so much bullshit in my whole life.
Stop making up crap.
Quit acting like you're cock of the walk. Nobody is. And I've had enough of your God-damned arrogance and trying to make me look like a retard. So FUCK OFF.