I don't have the Karma around to burn on this, but there are about a thousand different things wrong with that description of the situation
And before anyone tar's and feather's me for supporting Microsoft, note that I use Debian for Everything - I have 2K hidden on a partition that's getting dusty in case someone releases a cool game.
Now:
If you want to make sweeping statements about bloatware, try comparing apples and oranges: Win95's compact install will probably be just about as useful as installing just the kernel and the absolute base on Linux: Can be done in under 10 Megs, and if you just want to see a blinking prompt it will probably suit you just fine.
On the other hand, the WinXP install (with all components) clocks in at 1.5 Gigs. Debian comes (compressed) on 6 CD's last time I installed from CD (apt-get and.edu networks rule:) ) - with all components, this kind of thinking could lambaste (sp?) Linux as bloatware.
All those components may contain lots of bugs, but they also contain a fairly solid number of features that people need / want: people want a browser (that it sucks and kills competition is another discussion entirely), a cd-writer, a music thingy...
So the sad, truth of the matter is that yes, Microsoft sucks. And yes, I will never install XP. But to call it bloatware because it takes 1.5 Gigs to install (and then to refer to that as a "windowmanager") is somewhat misleading.
From the africaninspace.com site, it looks like he wants to do Stem Cell research, your standard Physiology stuff (heart rate, etc.) and some Protein Crystallisation for HIV and allergy drugs.
Or, alternatively, you haven't read some interviews with him:)
from a web-chat he had after a Carte Blanche interview:
Mark Shuttleworth: Of course! The Net is still on course to become the fundamental platform for all communications... from your cellphone to your fridge, they will all talk TCP/IP. But the net makes competition brutal, so expect to work hard for those profits. The mistake was in thinking that something that removed all barriers to entry could also be a source of infinite profitability! I don't think we'll see any new Yahoo! or E-Bay emerge, but we'll see great new ideas like slashdot.org that find a place for themselves, driven by people who love what they are doing and do it better than anybody else as a result, using the net to reach their listeners at the lowest possible cost.
So lets see: after the US does anything, 500 posts say "America is amazing". One cool thing happens in Africa, someone says "Go, Africa, Go!", and people say "how wierd is that".
Hmmm. I think its pretty reasonable for someone to be patriotic, don't you?
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Ho hum.
I don't have the Karma around to burn on this, but there are about a thousand different things wrong with that description of the situation
And before anyone tar's and feather's me for supporting Microsoft, note that I use Debian for Everything - I have 2K hidden on a partition that's getting dusty in case someone releases a cool game.
Now:
So the sad, truth of the matter is that yes, Microsoft sucks. And yes, I will never install XP. But to call it bloatware because it takes 1.5 Gigs to install (and then to refer to that as a "windowmanager") is somewhat misleading.
From the africaninspace.com site, it looks like he wants to do Stem Cell research, your standard Physiology stuff (heart rate, etc.) and some Protein Crystallisation for HIV and allergy drugs.
So lets see: after the US does anything, 500 posts say "America is amazing". One cool thing happens in Africa, someone says "Go, Africa, Go!", and people say "how wierd is that".
Hmmm. I think its pretty reasonable for someone to be patriotic, don't you?