"...Our goal is to eventually run some of the more popular Windows® software. That's an ambitious objective that will take time to achieve. At this time, Microsoft® Office 2000 has undergone the most testing and is the most compatible.."
This was last updated Date Updated 06/08/2002 01:32 PM so I'd call that pretty current information.
Note that this does not claim that Office will work -- it says "most compatible".
It's been pretty clear all along that this "Lindow$" deal has been a scam, from day one.
They want you to sign up and pay for support; they want you to pay to download software you could get elsewhere for nothing; they want you to pay...
And check this out:
"...For $99 users will obtain LindowsOS along with the promise that Lindows.com will work hard to give consumers real value..."
Right now it's a toss-up between the $399.00 box with a 1.3ghz Duron, 128mb ram (throw in an extra 256mb stick for $60.00), 40gb hdd, onboad ethernet, (throw out the modem..), and speakers,
...or a complete incompetent doesn't know that Nimda is still out there and probing, daily.
I'm seeing 40-80 probes daily (heh.. intermixed with 40-80 MS SQL port 1433 probes daily), on my firewall at home on a goddam dialup, fer krissakes...
How the hell can *any* company, or *any* subcontractor not be aware of this ongoing problem?
How the hell can any company with any pretensions to "Trustworthy Computing" have let this happen?
Make no mistake (Micro$oft apologists notwithstanding): there is absolutely no excuse for this unparalleled screw-up.
Do these people really think they are so all-powerful as to be immune to this sort of thing, or do they think they are so all-powerful that they just don't need to care?
I defy you to take the ads out of the Sunday paper, and find different prices for the exact same items in ads from Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, or any of the big, mass-market, national consumerist chains.
They've even stopped bothering with the fiction of charging $xx.95 at one chain, versus $xx.99 at another chain - prices are for the most part identical.
Where's the competition?
Where's the "free marketplace" that some apologists like to trumpet?
1) There's a helluva lot of people on/. who apparently have never learned that the wording of most of the "articles" on/. are specifically phrased as trolls for relentless, BS posting of the form "Micro$oft sux" "OSS sux" "GPL sux" "BillG sux" repeated ad nauseum...
Remember, kiddies, the more you post, the more management can justify those costly advertising rates.
2) There's a helluva lot of Micro$oft pimps hanging out on/.
...that the stupid KaZaa software will stop relentlessly trying to connect to a dynamic IP that does'nt have KaZaa running on it?
The utter idiocy of the "designers" of the software is evident if you've ever watched your firewall deny KaZaa SYN packets for sometimes hours, all from the same source IP's, as they mindlessly try to connect to a KaZaa host that's no longer on the IP you've just inherited.
Although it's hard to imagine, KaZaa is 'way worse that Yahoo! chat hosts trying to connect to a chat host that's long gone.
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This was last updated Date Updated 06/08/2002 01:32 PM so I'd call that pretty current information.
Note that this does not claim that Office will work -- it says "most compatible".
It's been pretty clear all along that this "Lindow$" deal has been a scam, from day one.
They want you to sign up and pay for support; they want you to pay to download software you could get elsewhere for nothing; they want you to pay...
And check this out:
Whoa!
Getting something for your money!
Well, at least they got Micro$oft beat there...
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The seminal volumes on what keeps us all connected.
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Plus 5: Funny!
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And not with slashing dots, eh?
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or...
A PS-2 with the Linux kit put on...
Damn it.
Decisions, decisions.
hmm..
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Excuse me? What?
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I'm seeing 40-80 probes daily (heh.. intermixed with 40-80 MS SQL port 1433 probes daily), on my firewall at home on a goddam dialup, fer krissakes...
How the hell can *any* company, or *any* subcontractor not be aware of this ongoing problem?
How the hell can any company with any pretensions to "Trustworthy Computing" have let this happen?
Make no mistake (Micro$oft apologists notwithstanding): there is absolutely no excuse for this unparalleled screw-up.
Do these people really think they are so all-powerful as to be immune to this sort of thing, or do they think they are so all-powerful that they just don't need to care?
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What a crock!
Do you have any faint clue as to the amount of Micro$oft'$ cash reserves?
At all?
BillG wouldn't walk across the street to piss on the money this judgement might cost him.
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But since I live in Seattle...
Big deal. You live in Seattle. So does everyone else.
Get over yourself.
Ten-to-one you moved here in the last three years, and you're from California.
BFD...
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I defy you to take the ads out of the Sunday paper, and find different prices for the exact same items in ads from Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, or any of the big, mass-market, national consumerist chains.
They've even stopped bothering with the fiction of charging $xx.95 at one chain, versus $xx.99 at another chain - prices are for the most part identical.
Where's the competition?
Where's the "free marketplace" that some apologists like to trumpet?
There is no such thing.
t_t_b
Remember, kiddies, the more you post, the more management can justify those costly advertising rates.
2) There's a helluva lot of Micro$oft pimps hanging out on /.
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As usual, it's installed and enabled by the default install.
Would *you* think to disable it?
t_t_b
Get a fucking clue.
Have you ever read a Micro$oft EULA?
They aren't responsible for anything.
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Everytime I hear someone try to invoke that smokescreen, I want to puke.
I live in a medium-to-large market (metropolitan Tacoma-Seattle-Everett, Washington) and I have the choice of:
You get the idea.
There is, for the vast majority of computer users, one and only one operating system company.
What fucking "free market"?
There is no true market for a whole lot of stuff, these days.
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J*sus H Chr*st is that first f*cking full-screen ad annoying.
Would I ever patronize any company that ever used such an advertisement?
Never.
Will I ever go back to Salon, after that?
Never.
To hell with 'em...
All you folks who are so in love with pop-ups and pop-unders and all that cr*p need to wise up.
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Score: +5 Ingenious troll
Best flawed rationalization for using Window$ I've seen in -- ten minutes?
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Whaddya expect, original writing at /. ?
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Even *you* can figure it out.
Turn off the f*cking television.
Also known in some circles as "getting a life"
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The utter idiocy of the "designers" of the software is evident if you've ever watched your firewall deny KaZaa SYN packets for sometimes hours, all from the same source IP's, as they mindlessly try to connect to a KaZaa host that's no longer on the IP you've just inherited.
Although it's hard to imagine, KaZaa is 'way worse that Yahoo! chat hosts trying to connect to a chat host that's long gone.
Idiots...
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Type in your search term, and up comes Google with the results.
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I hurt his feelings.
Ah, AOL! Sweet revenge?
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Just wait 'till next month's credit card bills.
I bet you ten-to-one you're still getting billed by both.
And the month after, too...
You're not out of their nets, yet. [pun intended]
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No wonder I've backsliding...
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Bullsh*t.
How come my firewall is *still* seeing 80+ Code Red/Nimda probes daily?
Just like any other worm?
You have no clue.
The number of infected Micro$oft boxes out there is scarcely any less than it was six months ago, thanks mainly to clueless Micro$oft users...
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