Reading a lot of slashdot comments makes me wonder which is worse... Those who post pro-linux-anti-microsoft messages on a pro-linux-anti-microsoft forum, or those who have nothing better to do then post anti-pro-linux-anti-microsoft messags on a pro-linux-anti-microsoft forum...
And don't worry, I'm sure there are plenty of forums that are equally pro-windows-anti-linux.
Those 27 apps are guarenteed to run on win2k? Does that mean if any of those 27 apps crashes an win2k box, I can sue M$ for false advratising / monitary loss / etc? (Getting evil ideas of setting up a win2k box, and envoking a specific 27 applications at the same time.. Lets see ya guarentee this, fucker!)
Not for desktop machines my ass. Why do chip manufacturers say this? And why do some of us have ballsy 700mhz Athlons, or dual PIIs, when we were told that kind of setup is "not for desktop machines?"
Oh yeah, and why is the Debian, Transmeta, and Dreamcast logos all look surprisingly similar? Heheh.. Dreamcast II will probably have a Transmeta processor and be running Debian...
Sort of, Foogle... My point actually was that, while someone could get away with exploiting the name of Linux in an unrelated market, no one (in this country or otherwise) would be able to get away with it if it were some almighty, self-righteous, government-bribing (Ooo sorry, "government-sponsoring") corperation.
The original article says that Micro$oft can't do anything about it because of Russia's poor copyrights. So in other words, they tried. But when someone made Linux fabric softener, it was considered "no contest" since the difference between OS and laundry products "does not cause confusion in the markey"... Sounds kinda like a double standard to me...
"...of bringing the masses online. This is a good thing..."
In your opinion. Frankly, I liked the internet better when you actually had to know what you were doing in order to get online. Now, the "online community" is a bunch of idiots and morons that are wasting good bandwidth on spam and p0rn.
Right off I could say "Oh, Intel's making an intelligent decision by embracing Linux and helping its development blah blah blah... Intel will gain many more users in the Linux world" (That is until they embed a serial number in it without telling the world) What does M$ think of this? M$ has been a long time butt-buddy with Intel, and knowing what M$ has done in the past, I'd think that the small gain that Intel makes would be overshadowed by the backlash M$ makes.
I've heard many posts saying "Micros~1 can't hurt Perl the way they did Java" and things like that. People basically defending the language and Micros~1 porting of it. Sure, they cannot ruin the unix version of perl, or directly affect what we do with it. What they CAN do is create a handful (And for Micros~1, that's a pretty big hand) of Perl programmers who know MS-Perl, and not Perl as it REALLY is. This would diversify and seperate us in to multiple communities, and put us at arms with each other. Just the same as I consider nothing makes MS happier than seeing new Linux distros come up, because that makes war among us, and less Big Brother'll have to do to get people to stop converting...
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Reading a lot of slashdot comments makes me wonder which is worse... Those who post pro-linux-anti-microsoft messages on a pro-linux-anti-microsoft forum, or those who have nothing better to do then post anti-pro-linux-anti-microsoft messags on a pro-linux-anti-microsoft forum...
And don't worry, I'm sure there are plenty of forums that are equally pro-windows-anti-linux.
Those 27 apps are guarenteed to run on win2k? Does that mean if any of those 27 apps crashes an win2k box, I can sue M$ for false advratising / monitary loss / etc? (Getting evil ideas of setting up a win2k box, and envoking a specific 27 applications at the same time.. Lets see ya guarentee this, fucker!)
Not for desktop machines my ass. Why do chip manufacturers say this? And why do some of us have ballsy 700mhz Athlons, or dual PIIs, when we were told that kind of setup is "not for desktop machines?"
Oh yeah, and why is the Debian, Transmeta, and Dreamcast logos all look surprisingly similar? Heheh.. Dreamcast II will probably have a Transmeta processor and be running Debian...
Sort of, Foogle... My point actually was that, while someone could get away with exploiting the name of Linux in an unrelated market, no one (in this country or otherwise) would be able to get away with it if it were some almighty, self-righteous, government-bribing (Ooo sorry, "government-sponsoring") corperation.
The original article says that Micro$oft can't do anything about it because of Russia's poor copyrights. So in other words, they tried. But when someone made Linux fabric softener, it was considered "no contest" since the difference between OS and laundry products "does not cause confusion in the markey"... Sounds kinda like a double standard to me...
"...of bringing the masses online. This is a good thing..."
In your opinion. Frankly, I liked the internet better when you actually had to know what you were doing in order to get online. Now, the "online community" is a bunch of idiots and morons that are wasting good bandwidth on spam and p0rn.
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Right off I could say "Oh, Intel's making an intelligent decision by embracing Linux and helping its development blah blah blah... Intel will gain many more users in the Linux world" (That is until they embed a serial number in it without telling the world) What does M$ think of this? M$ has been a long time butt-buddy with Intel, and knowing what M$ has done in the past, I'd think that the small gain that Intel makes would be overshadowed by the backlash M$ makes.
That's funny, I remember seeing "Plug and Play" stamped all over the power strips and UPS's when I worked at a computer store. I laughed my butt off.
I've heard many posts saying "Micros~1 can't hurt Perl the way they did Java" and things like that. People basically defending the language and Micros~1 porting of it. Sure, they cannot ruin the unix version of perl, or directly affect what we do with it. What they CAN do is create a handful (And for Micros~1, that's a pretty big hand) of Perl programmers who know MS-Perl, and not Perl as it REALLY is. This would diversify and seperate us in to multiple communities, and put us at arms with each other. Just the same as I consider nothing makes MS happier than seeing new Linux distros come up, because that makes war among us, and less Big Brother'll have to do to get people to stop converting...
So instead of asking him about his favorite sexual position, how about asking him relevant questions such as this?