I hope that none of the Talking Moon marketing mangers did read your posting. It covers exactly their way of fighting a hostile computing environment and will give them some valuable advices how to complete the job this time.
I'm anxious, if Linux and the Open Software movement will be strong enough to defeat the threat this time.
Surely the Talking Moon programmers will have to solve lots of technical problems doing that job but with one of them they will fail:
I don't believe, that it is possible to port the famous "Blue Screen of Death" to Linux.
Some have tried (KDE's screensaver programmers for example) but they all failed. No computer running Linux did ever behave like a real Windows box after the Blue Screen appeared.
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Have you ported any GNU software to your
machine? Don't forget to publish your changes
to the source code before selling it to
another tribe!
Hey, your playing with fire.
I hope that none of the Talking Moon marketing mangers did read your posting. It covers exactly their way of fighting a hostile computing environment and will give them some valuable advices how to complete the job this time.
I'm anxious, if Linux and the Open Software movement will be strong enough to defeat the threat this time.
Surely the Talking Moon programmers will have to solve lots of technical problems doing that job but with one of them they will fail:
I don't believe, that it is possible to port the famous "Blue Screen of Death" to Linux.
Some have tried (KDE's screensaver programmers for example) but they all failed. No computer running Linux did ever behave like a real Windows box after the Blue Screen appeared.