This is the sort of attention seeking sulking that you'd expect from an 8 year old.
He obviously knows that what he is saying is unfounded, naive, and just plain wrong. Surely he has thought that everyone making an OS since the first OS has been reinventing the wheel! Microsoft copied Apple (and others), Apple copied Xerox, but they were all trying to improve on previous attempts.
Mr. Coates knows all this as well as the next person. All this is for, is to get him some publicity. I don't know whether he needs the money or the recognition, or what, and I don't care!
Did anyone else notice the advertisement before the page loaded? This isn't about Linux at all, he's probably not even an IT reporter, it's just the Tribune trying to make money out of the advertising, and using Slashdot to get the attention!
The internet is going downhill very quickly with the likes of these shameless types.
A friend of mine showed me the most brilliant thing I have ever seen!
And old 486 motherboard had shorted out somewhere and burnt a gaping hole through the board itself. The funny thing is, that it'd only damaged half of the RAM in the machine, two SIMM's worked fine and the other two were screwed.... go figure!!!..
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This is the sort of attention seeking sulking that you'd expect from an 8 year old.
He obviously knows that what he is saying is unfounded, naive, and just plain wrong. Surely he has thought that everyone making an OS since the first OS has been reinventing the wheel!
Microsoft copied Apple (and others), Apple copied Xerox, but they were all trying to improve on previous attempts.
Mr. Coates knows all this as well as the next person. All this is for, is to get him some publicity. I don't know whether he needs the money or the recognition, or what, and I don't care!
Did anyone else notice the advertisement before the page loaded? This isn't about Linux at all, he's probably not even an IT reporter, it's just the Tribune trying to make money out of the advertising, and using Slashdot to get the attention!
The internet is going downhill very quickly with the likes of these shameless types.
A friend of mine showed me the most brilliant thing I have ever seen!
And old 486 motherboard had shorted out somewhere and burnt a gaping hole through the board itself. The funny thing is, that it'd only damaged half of the RAM in the machine, two SIMM's worked fine and the other two were screwed.... go figure!!!..
Seems that MS should be looking really good in this poll.
Bloatware = Productivity... I don't think so!!!
Hmmm,
Nobody seems to understand.
Non-MS operating systems always survive, and will always survive no matter how huge the Microsoft juggernaut gets.
Why? Because if you want the new innovations first, if you want to be up to date with all the new concepts and trends in IT, you don't use MS!
MS have always survived by copying! Look at Win95/98! It uses concepts of Mac, the Acorn Archimedes etc. etc.
If you want to be on the cutting edge, use that which MS will copy, rather than MS itself!
It's a sad example of human behaviour, that sometimes, when we do real bad things, we turn and look for someone else to blame!
Didn't you know, Leonardo loaded the gun, went to the school, and shot the kids himself!!!!!!!!!!!!