there, i fixed it, other than the one entry for OSX it it the bull's eye (spot on target)
Microsoft has not worked well with anyone. Even though they are a company based in the United States and Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are U.S. citizens, they have a philosophy and mantra that goes against the principles of democracy, against the very foundations of their country that establish freedom and opportunities for ALL people. They simply want to take advantage of numbers, not grow a society in the freedoms many forefathers have fought for, but one that would continue to give them lots and lots of money. They are selfish, greedy, and self-serving. All they care about is getting people to use their software, so they continue their money stream. They don't care who they exclude, they don't have to care about the quality of their services, because they have a monopoly bought from the US-government through the avenues that allow special interests to take power away from the people and give it to the people who have a lot of money, no matter if that money was earned honestly, or not.
If the way Microsoft did business is very good, right, and moral, then why not teach this to our kids in our schools? Lacking in creativity? getting bad grades? Pay off your teacher. Buy your way through school through manipulation, power, and influence. Isn't that what Microsoft has done in the real world, except they have bought their way through the government enough to dispell public scrutiny? If we let Microsoft do this, are we not doing our kids a disservice because we are not teaching them the way the world is? Maybe the correct way is not democracy, but to make as much money as possible, any way you can, buying your way through life, and forgetting people who have less power than you?
If we would let Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer take over the world, I would have to say, your free speech would be removed, you would have to pay to post your words here on Slashdot, and your words would of course be censored, and only speech that would glorify Microsoft's cause as long as Bill and Steve could use it propaganda for their empire. They are no different than one country trying to take over the world. There are governments in their way and they will be dealt with accordingly.
Your choice. Freedom or Bondage. I want freedom. In everything I do, I do those things that promote those ideals. In regards to computing, I use only of Open Source software such as Linux, Open Office, and Firefox which is the stuff Bill Gates and Steve (monkeyboy) Ballmer do not want me to use because it does not suit their purposes, like MS-Windows, Microsoft Office, or Internet Explorer (stuff that would lock me in to giving Bill Gates and Steve (monkeyboy) Ballmer perpetual revenue without them having to earn it from me.)
other than the parent's user name being AppleTwoGuru, i see no mention of Apple or OSX or any other Apple product in his comment, i think your trolling reply is off topic...
a small poem (haiku style), it is difficult to type correctly because of intentional typos and a few numbers substituting for letters, i even get it wrong myself about 1/3 of the time even though i know it by heart...
during the antarctic winter there is no sun shining, which will be several months out of the year = (june thru december without any sunshine?) the antarctic summer gets sunshine 24/7...
i have family living in Alaska so i hear about the land of the midnight sun, (and no sun in winter)
too bad TimeWarner or CNN or some other big media company could not bail yahoo out, i rather see something like that than for microsoft getting their dirty paws on them...
if microsoft wanted to poison the open source pool before validating their claims of IP infringement how are you to know if it is indeed microsoft's code without having microsoft's code to compare it with? (planting evidence)...
you have it backwards, since microsoft's product is closed source how do you know the code in any open source project you are looking at did not come from an 800 pound gorilla that resides in redmond...
lets see, microsoft wants to kill Linux on the desktop (like a psychopath), Miguel De Izaca got very cozy with microsoft (sellout? yeah) and novell did too (another sellout), gnome is looking pretty fishy to me (smells like a fish too)...
unsure of Nokia's motive is for now so my enthusiasm for KDE is on hold with KDE-3.5.8 & QT-3.3.8 until who knows when...
Fixing Vista would be like closing the barn door after the horse escaped. if microsoft had any good sense they would follow in Apple's footsteps (sortof) and build the next version of windows on top of a BSD flavor...
Open Source monolithic kernels are best, allowing any user to build their own custom kernel and a choice of either having device drivers & support to either be built as a module or in to the kernel itself...
personally i prefer to build as much as possible as modules with the exception of filesystem support for / (ext3) which i prefer to build in to the kernel itself thus making an initrd unnecessary...
the Linux kernel is one of the finest pieces of software to ever be built since the beginning of computers...
Japan as 1st choice and Taiwan & South Korea would be a toss up for second & third choice. Japan is the cutting edge for new technologies and the Japanese people have the best work ethic of any people on earth...
P.S. i am not Japanese (I am a Caucasian American)...
i build as much as possible the only required support for my hardware specifics as modules except for ext3 filesystem support (built in to the kernel itself) thus making an initrd unnecessary, my kernel is nice & light, highly responsive and boots in just about 10 seconds, and the kernel is only 1.1 megs in size &/lib/modules/2.6.24 is 11 megs...
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STFU, you don't know a damn thing about the politics & semantics of FOSS & Linux & Linus Torvalds...
there, i fixed it, other than the one entry for OSX it it the bull's eye (spot on target)
Microsoft has not worked well with anyone. Even though they are a company based in the United States and Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are U.S. citizens, they have a philosophy and mantra that goes against the principles of democracy, against the very foundations of their country that establish freedom and opportunities for ALL people. They simply want to take advantage of numbers, not grow a society in the freedoms many forefathers have fought for, but one that would continue to give them lots and lots of money. They are selfish, greedy, and self-serving. All they care about is getting people to use their software, so they continue their money stream. They don't care who they exclude, they don't have to care about the quality of their services, because they have a monopoly bought from the US-government through the avenues that allow special interests to take power away from the people and give it to the people who have a lot of money, no matter if that money was earned honestly, or not.
If the way Microsoft did business is very good, right, and moral, then why not teach this to our kids in our schools? Lacking in creativity? getting bad grades? Pay off your teacher. Buy your way through school through manipulation, power, and influence. Isn't that what Microsoft has done in the real world, except they have bought their way through the government enough to dispell public scrutiny? If we let Microsoft do this, are we not doing our kids a disservice because we are not teaching them the way the world is? Maybe the correct way is not democracy, but to make as much money as possible, any way you can, buying your way through life, and forgetting people who have less power than you? If we would let Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer take over the world, I would have to say, your free speech would be removed, you would have to pay to post your words here on Slashdot, and your words would of course be censored, and only speech that would glorify Microsoft's cause as long as Bill and Steve could use it propaganda for their empire. They are no different than one country trying to take over the world. There are governments in their way and they will be dealt with accordingly.
Your choice. Freedom or Bondage. I want freedom. In everything I do, I do those things that promote those ideals. In regards to computing, I use only of Open Source software such as Linux, Open Office, and Firefox which is the stuff Bill Gates and Steve (monkeyboy) Ballmer do not want me to use because it does not suit their purposes, like MS-Windows, Microsoft Office, or Internet Explorer (stuff that would lock me in to giving Bill Gates and Steve (monkeyboy) Ballmer perpetual revenue without them having to earn it from me.)
to both pandrijeczko's and Shados' comments:
other than the parent's user name being AppleTwoGuru, i see no mention of Apple or OSX or any other Apple product in his comment, i think your trolling reply is off topic...
mod parent up ^ insightful...
a small poem (haiku style), it is difficult to type correctly because of intentional typos and a few numbers substituting for letters, i even get it wrong myself about 1/3 of the time even though i know it by heart...
during the antarctic winter there is no sun shining, which will be several months out of the year = (june thru december without any sunshine?) the antarctic summer gets sunshine 24/7...
i have family living in Alaska so i hear about the land of the midnight sun, (and no sun in winter)
yup, i agree, i knew this would happen as Linux gains market share and popularity...
lets fork everything :p
too bad TimeWarner or CNN or some other big media company could not bail yahoo out, i rather see something like that than for microsoft getting their dirty paws on them...
elvis is like vi only with sideburns and drives a pink Cadillac...
if microsoft wanted to poison the open source pool before validating their claims of IP infringement how are you to know if it is indeed microsoft's code without having microsoft's code to compare it with? (planting evidence)...
"Tales from a Parallel Universe"
you have it backwards, since microsoft's product is closed source how do you know the code in any open source project you are looking at did not come from an 800 pound gorilla that resides in redmond...
fvwm2 rulez!
heres my ~/.fvwm2rc http://pastebin.com/f5f82f926
lets see, microsoft wants to kill Linux on the desktop (like a psychopath), Miguel De Izaca got very cozy with microsoft (sellout? yeah) and novell did too (another sellout), gnome is looking pretty fishy to me (smells like a fish too)...
unsure of Nokia's motive is for now so my enthusiasm for KDE is on hold with KDE-3.5.8 & QT-3.3.8 until who knows when...
who can you trust?
same here
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Fixing Vista would be like closing the barn door after the horse escaped. if microsoft had any good sense they would follow in Apple's footsteps (sortof) and build the next version of windows on top of a BSD flavor...
Open Source monolithic kernels are best, allowing any user to build their own custom kernel and a choice of either having device drivers & support to either be built as a module or in to the kernel itself...
personally i prefer to build as much as possible as modules with the exception of filesystem support for / (ext3) which i prefer to build in to the kernel itself thus making an initrd unnecessary...
the Linux kernel is one of the finest pieces of software to ever be built since the beginning of computers...
RE:["but there are regions you don't want to go to."]
there are places right here in the USA like that...
Japan as 1st choice and Taiwan & South Korea would be a toss up for second & third choice. Japan is the cutting edge for new technologies and the Japanese people have the best work ethic of any people on earth...
P.S. i am not Japanese (I am a Caucasian American)...
i believe it, what we are witnessing is the slow and methodical destruction of the USA...
Ay! Oh! A way to go Ohio...
RE:["why don't you make a lighter, faster gnome"]
http://www.xfce.org/ = a lighter, faster gnome...
is aluminum foil as good as tin foil for making hats?
i build as much as possible the only required support for my hardware specifics as modules except for ext3 filesystem support (built in to the kernel itself) thus making an initrd unnecessary, my kernel is nice & light, highly responsive and boots in just about 10 seconds, and the kernel is only 1.1 megs in size & /lib/modules/2.6.24 is 11 megs...