Are you also aware that it's the most widely used operating system in the planet?
and can spot a trend
You can hope for one, which is quite different.
Wall Street was very forgiving with XP for six years and are out of patience.
"Wall Street" patience is measured in hours, not years. Your analogies and claims are stupid and ignorant. I don't even know if you're ignorant or you just pretend to be because that's the only way you can FUD and troll the hell out of Slashdot. Like this thread. Which is it?
I'm sorry twitter, I'm going to have to decline your little link there - that article is complete and utter bullshit, not to mention painfully outdated. Maybe you were busy doing TPS reports and didn't get the memo, but Microsoft changed their compensation structures along with everyone else after the Enron/Tycho/Worldcom debacles. That was... hmm, I think 2002 maybe.
So do you have something else? From this millenium, preferably?
You fail at long-term memory, zealot. It took almost four years for XP to surpass the Windows 2000 + Windows 98 market share after it was released in 2001. It's entirely possible that situation won't play out the same way with Vista, but I'm sure everyone would appreciate if you tried to hold your breath for that long.
Of course at this point Vista's main competitor is still Windows XP, another Microsoft operating system. How's that crusade going so far?
In an inflationary economy, anything less than "record breaking" is a decline.
I'm not even sure you understand what you've written, but by this metric Google is in trouble, since they just missed earnings. Hell, Oracle and IBM must be at the brink as well.
Declines are just fine for most businesses, but M$ pays a large share of their salary in terms of stock options and depends on perpetual growth to keep going.
No, "M$" does not pay a large share of salaries as stock options. Please provide proof of this, seriously. That must be public knowledge, if it's true.
depends on perpetual growth to keep going.
Way to go twitter. I love the way you word it, but please explain to us poor simpletons how this is different than any other corporation? This is so idiotic. It's equivalent to saying organisms depend on breathing to go on living.
You know you're pretty much down to scraping the bottom of that barrel when you find that those stupid images actually make a point of some sort... and then you actually use them to prop up your "M$ is dying" dribble.
I mean, those aren't even well done, never mind funny or even worth looking at. Do you hang out at 4chan? What am I saying, at least the/b/ doodles tend to be well done and actually funny. "Pathetically stupid" is a good way to describe these.
soon they will be missing Wall Street's, then it's all over for them
1999 called, he wants his doom predictions back. "XP is not selling, everyone is sticking with 2000, Microsoft will go bankrupt soon" and so on and so forth.
Wow, you are completely and utterly fucked up. This insane claim that buying a product from a company automatically makes me responsible for their actions is about the most stupid thing I've ever read around here, and I've seen plenty stupid. And I love that "if you're not hating my enemy then you hate me" undercurrent, which of course you are incapable of detecting coming out of your own prose. That's just hilarious.
BTW, your gratuitous flamebait reference to "they hate your freedom" and that "evil society" bit are super. I love how people like you must collude their infantile hatred for corporations like Microsoft with their infantile hatred for Americans. I'm sure that gets lots of claps from your peanut gallery, but in this case you should have saved it, given that Macthorpe is from the UK. Nice try though. Nothing screams "I am a retarded zealot" like these things.
Five years is plenty fair IMHO for getting paid for (in some cases a few hours worth of work), over and over again for the rest of one's life.
I'm not sure I follow. Are you speaking out of personal experience? What or who decides what is "plenty fair"?
I don't necessarily disagree that copyright is broken, but I see way too many of these "X should be Y" opinions, and I don't think the people who write them understand IP or copyright law other than to claim they don't like it for one reason or another.
What the fuck? I regularly send myself emails with all sorts of attachments from work to my Hotmail account. Other than the occasional spam false positive, I've *never* once failed to receive them. This is an infantile "investigation" at best, another AdSense dollar troll "let's bash Microsoft because it's cool" FUD blog whore with a chip in his shoulder and some really painful grade school grammar.
Oh, and he never does mention if he checked his fucking spam folder. I wonder what's in there.
Seriously, this is just too fucking much. Made worse of course by the fact that Slashdot is now partaking on the page impression revenue. Next comes Digg and every other "news" website. Spreading FUD on teh interwebs sure is profitable!
No, he was asking for proof of your implied assertion that "non-free" software is somehow inherently less secure than everything else. Perhaps you missed that?
That's a nice link you have there, BTW. Everyone should click on it.
Does anyone need more evidence to abandon non free software?
Um, considering your "reason" is a badly-worded theory about something that has not happened yet, I'd say the answer to that is a qualified yes.
Oh, I'm sorry. You were "evangelizing". Never mind that, once we get all religious we don't need pesky things like reason or truth or anything else. We just need to believe.
Say, are you originally from Kansas by any chance?
"Works" mean just that, it works. I have plenty of proof, whereas all you have is the usual "I don't believe you, so I'll just insult you". Please, point me to some article that documents how people with MSO2003 cannot read MSO2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. You know, including the people that "hate me", as you so cleverly put it.
I mean, I suppose it's possible that every single document I've sent to clients, co-workers and business partners over the past six months have gone unread. God, that would be awful! So really, I'd love to see you back your lies up so I can see the error of my ways.
Otherwise, may I interest you in a nice cup of shut the fuck up?
Hey, someone should notify twitter that we've found his long-lost twin brother. It's uncanny - the exact same hillbilly spelling, deficient grammar, hyperbole-filled FUD-laden rants, lies and unsubstantiated bullshit!
Wow, and to think I've been exchanging MSO2007 documents for six months with Office 2003 users. With no problems at all. It's like I live in this parallel dimension where everything you claim doesn't work actually does. I feel a Rod Serling moment coming...
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twitter Zone.
Well twitter, I'm sure you'll find a way to blame this on Microsoft as well, or at least bring them into a discussion that has absolutely nothing to do with them. And use words that make you feel cool, like "shit" and "fuck".
Well, it just goes to show you that this company is incapable of doing anything right. I mean, talk about putting profits over everything to release a gadget that kills the networks it connects to. Typical Micros...
...oh wait... this is Apple? Oh. Hmmmm....
Well, I'm sure that the university admins are all morons and the iPhone is working as advertised. This is just more FUD from the haters. Go Steve!
The FLOSS anti-everything FUD machine (powered by the likes of Slashdot, LXer, Groklaw, Digg, OSNews, etc), while occasionally valuable in reporting things that otherwise you wouldn't hear about, sometimes turns on itself inadvertently. It happens to Microsoft once in a while as well, but at least Microsoft have never claimed the moral high ground so you don't expect much from them to begin with.
This is exactly the same issue as "Iceweasel" in Debian, which was created due to a problem with the Mozilla Corp. branding, which is essentially proprietary. The problem here is not the license, but the trademark. Two very different things.
For that matter, RH has also "vigorously" defended their trademarks. Just ask the CentOS people.
None of those links back up what you're saying, and the first thread shows you getting your ass pistol-whipped. Try again?
Oh, and as much as I'm sure you'd like to think Bill Gates is personally using twenty sockupuppets to "troll" you, that wasn't me replying to you. How is your sockpuppet doing, by the way? Does it get lonely when you don't use it to shill your own posts for a while?
They made it "suck" and screwed themselves in the process? Last I looked ACPI was also implemented in Windows with about as much success as Linux and BSD. What parts of the ACPI spec do you feel are "impossible" to conform to? Do you feel that it's "complex" because Bill Gates wanted to screw everyone or - and this is just theoretical - that stuff is just hard? Are you a hardware engineer?
BTW, if you could produce the follow up email from Microsoft that says they did indeed "screw" everyone with ACPI (or even APM), I'm sure a lot of people would love to read it. Heck, I'll settle for a link to an authoritative source with an analysis of how ACPI is broken and how it was made so by Microsoft.
Let me help you understand why it was modded as troll. This is what the post should have looked like:
Desktop liberation is important because it prevents sabotage in other seemingly unrelated areas like, power management and portable music players. As long as [Microsoft] has the lion's share of desktops, they can put pressure on vendors, equipment makers and even on line service providers like Google.
This is the point where you quit while you're ahead, and it's the difference between +5, Insighftul and -1, Troll.
The rest of the post is nothing more than a disjointed, infantile nickel hyperbole rant, complete with grade school creative spelling, the implication that free software is absolutely perfect and everything else is absolutely useless, the ever so odious "GNU/Linux" Stallmanite koolaid push and empty promises of nirvana if only everyone would just be reasonable and see the world in the same "join us or die" black and white shades as him. The whole thing is "cleverly" designed to make sure that you end up looking like you're attacking free software or defending Microsoft when you try to question his bullshit.
Now you might very well agree with the latter part of the post, in which case more power to you and all that. Most people don't, however, and that's probably why twit has been getting troll mods on all his "let me tell you why M$ sux" rants lately.
You pays your money and you takes your chances. Or if you're twitter, you just blame your negative moderation on a vast Microsoft conspiracy to undermine you personally, operated out of India with funds provided by Bill Gates' checkbook. Either way, since you're incapable of realizing that you inflict more damage than good to the very cause you are supposedly trying to advance, you lose.
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Are you also aware that it's the most widely used operating system in the planet?
You can hope for one, which is quite different.
"Wall Street" patience is measured in hours, not years. Your analogies and claims are stupid and ignorant. I don't even know if you're ignorant or you just pretend to be because that's the only way you can FUD and troll the hell out of Slashdot. Like this thread. Which is it?
So do you have something else? From this millenium, preferably?
Of course at this point Vista's main competitor is still Windows XP, another Microsoft operating system. How's that crusade going so far?
I'm not even sure you understand what you've written, but by this metric Google is in trouble, since they just missed earnings. Hell, Oracle and IBM must be at the brink as well.
No, "M$" does not pay a large share of salaries as stock options. Please provide proof of this, seriously. That must be public knowledge, if it's true.
Way to go twitter. I love the way you word it, but please explain to us poor simpletons how this is different than any other corporation? This is so idiotic. It's equivalent to saying organisms depend on breathing to go on living.
I mean, those aren't even well done, never mind funny or even worth looking at. Do you hang out at 4chan? What am I saying, at least the /b/ doodles tend to be well done and actually funny. "Pathetically stupid" is a good way to describe these.
1999 called, he wants his doom predictions back. "XP is not selling, everyone is sticking with 2000, Microsoft will go bankrupt soon" and so on and so forth.
BTW, your gratuitous flamebait reference to "they hate your freedom" and that "evil society" bit are super. I love how people like you must collude their infantile hatred for corporations like Microsoft with their infantile hatred for Americans. I'm sure that gets lots of claps from your peanut gallery, but in this case you should have saved it, given that Macthorpe is from the UK. Nice try though. Nothing screams "I am a retarded zealot" like these things.
I'm not sure I follow. Are you speaking out of personal experience? What or who decides what is "plenty fair"?
I don't necessarily disagree that copyright is broken, but I see way too many of these "X should be Y" opinions, and I don't think the people who write them understand IP or copyright law other than to claim they don't like it for one reason or another.
That's nice. Would it be OK for him if I pushed for an artificial limit on some of the clauses in the GPL as well?
Oh, and he never does mention if he checked his fucking spam folder. I wonder what's in there.
Seriously, this is just too fucking much. Made worse of course by the fact that Slashdot is now partaking on the page impression revenue. Next comes Digg and every other "news" website. Spreading FUD on teh interwebs sure is profitable!
That's a nice link you have there, BTW. Everyone should click on it.
You must be reading a different Groklaw than the one I tend to whenever I want to see what the FLOSS zealot elite is up to.
Um, considering your "reason" is a badly-worded theory about something that has not happened yet, I'd say the answer to that is a qualified yes.
Oh, I'm sorry. You were "evangelizing". Never mind that, once we get all religious we don't need pesky things like reason or truth or anything else. We just need to believe.
Say, are you originally from Kansas by any chance?
I mean, I suppose it's possible that every single document I've sent to clients, co-workers and business partners over the past six months have gone unread. God, that would be awful! So really, I'd love to see you back your lies up so I can see the error of my ways.
Otherwise, may I interest you in a nice cup of shut the fuck up?
Oh, wait...
Oh, you already did. Never mind.
Well, I'm sure that the university admins are all morons and the iPhone is working as advertised. This is just more FUD from the haters. Go Steve!
The FLOSS anti-everything FUD machine (powered by the likes of Slashdot, LXer, Groklaw, Digg, OSNews, etc), while occasionally valuable in reporting things that otherwise you wouldn't hear about, sometimes turns on itself inadvertently. It happens to Microsoft once in a while as well, but at least Microsoft have never claimed the moral high ground so you don't expect much from them to begin with.
I got confused by your dollar sign shitstorm. Try again?
For that matter, RH has also "vigorously" defended their trademarks. Just ask the CentOS people.
Since you can't even figure out simple arithmetic rounding.
Oh, and as much as I'm sure you'd like to think Bill Gates is personally using twenty sockupuppets to "troll" you, that wasn't me replying to you. How is your sockpuppet doing, by the way? Does it get lonely when you don't use it to shill your own posts for a while?
BTW, if you could produce the follow up email from Microsoft that says they did indeed "screw" everyone with ACPI (or even APM), I'm sure a lot of people would love to read it. Heck, I'll settle for a link to an authoritative source with an analysis of how ACPI is broken and how it was made so by Microsoft.
No, there isn't. That's why I enclosed the term in quotes.
Thank you for proving my point. If I actually had need of your approval, I guess I'd be very happy right about now.
This is the point where you quit while you're ahead, and it's the difference between +5, Insighftul and -1, Troll.
The rest of the post is nothing more than a disjointed, infantile nickel hyperbole rant, complete with grade school creative spelling, the implication that free software is absolutely perfect and everything else is absolutely useless, the ever so odious "GNU/Linux" Stallmanite koolaid push and empty promises of nirvana if only everyone would just be reasonable and see the world in the same "join us or die" black and white shades as him. The whole thing is "cleverly" designed to make sure that you end up looking like you're attacking free software or defending Microsoft when you try to question his bullshit.
Now you might very well agree with the latter part of the post, in which case more power to you and all that. Most people don't, however, and that's probably why twit has been getting troll mods on all his "let me tell you why M$ sux" rants lately.
You pays your money and you takes your chances. Or if you're twitter, you just blame your negative moderation on a vast Microsoft conspiracy to undermine you personally, operated out of India with funds provided by Bill Gates' checkbook. Either way, since you're incapable of realizing that you inflict more damage than good to the very cause you are supposedly trying to advance, you lose.