No matter whether the system sucks or not, if this had stood, quite a few other companies would have been subject to the same kind of payout. I think someone below posted this link to a list: Click to read.
On that list are IBM, Linspire and Sun. The original decision was bad for everyone, though it obviously didn't knock you off your pedestal.
2007 is much more the year of gnu/linux than it is the year of Vista. Did you deduce that from the statistics that show that Vista is already being used on more than seven times the number of Linux machines? Despite the fact that Linux has been going for years and Vista has barely been going for nine months?
You never disproved my assertion that selling a wider range of products leads to less sales of the products being sold, either. That's probably because you can't.
So Netcraft doesn't tell you how they generate their stats, Netcraft chooses strange ways of grouping products, and Netcraft polls one site 1.6 times more than the next site (conveniently ignoring the fact that the next site is an Apache server and is polled almost twice as much as the next site on the list)... therefore Microsoft is gaming Netcraft.
I'd argue with you but you'd drag me down to your level and beat me with experience.
Let us venture into Twitter's brain to see the thought process behind this post:
"What? Evidence that Linux lost marketshare in something? UNPOSSIBLE! Looks like I'll have to make something up as usual!"
Are you that insecure in the software you use that you have to see any minor percentage point change in something as either the end of Microsoft or anti-Linux FUD?
It does if you want to be listened to. Talking bollocks because everyone else is talking bollocks only ensures that they'll treat you like they do everyone else.
Talking sense when everyone else around you has none is more likely to get you somewhere.
That wasn't the implication from the article:
I was trying to keep it a secret out of fear of attacks from angry Microsoft worshipers not
I was trying to keep it a secret out of fear of my sysadmin finding out
Forced in what way? By circumstance or by someone holding you at knifepoint?
I think you need to reassess the difference between "Use this because it's more practical when you're working with other companies" and "Use this because if you don't you're a morally reprehensible person who cares nothing for freedom from software oppression".
I've had clients threaten to take their business elsewhere because of an Excel report that had some incorrect formatting, so it's not too far-fetched (unfortunately).
Let me then, as someone employed by an ISP and not Microsoft, point out just a part of the bias in just the summary.
When I first started my experiment I was trying to keep it a secret out of fear of attacks from angry Microsoft worshipers Using Linux is not like being gay. Strangely enough there aren't many people calling for your blood when you don't use a particular OS. It's only when you try and force what you use on everyone else that they get testy.
You might want to actually visit the website once, just so you can read the part where you can use any of 4 different control schemes - Gamecube controller, Wii Classic Controller, Wiimote & Nunchuck or Wiimote.
What's even funnier is that Netscape didn't go bust. Ever.
When Netscape 5 didn't get any marketshare, they funded the Mozilla Organisation to help them code 6. That's when they were bought by AOL. Even if the Netscape 4 issue was at the same time as the dot-com crash, Netscape would never have been a part of the crash anyway!
Trouble is, it doesn't take a degree in mathematics to notice that taking a cross-section of the Slashdot populace is going to result in an incredibly skewed dataset with regards to Microsoft matters - which is good, because I don't have a degree in mathematics.
I would like to remind you that Slashdot is a corner of the internet inhabited by, well, geeks. If one subsect of a population with a mostly common viewpoint thinks you're unpopular, it's more likely to be social rather than smart:)
I'm not FSF sponsored or stupid, thank you, but I am sick of hearing propaganda about the "bubble" of the late 90's. Many if not most of those companies were crushed by the incumbent powers of the time, which include M$. Blather about the "bubble" blames the victims and masks wrongdoing. You actually think the dotcom bubble bursting was Microsoft's fault?
Normally I avoid outright insulting you but GP was right, you are stupid.
Except ISO are still a standards body, i.e. a collection of minds, and you're one guy on Slashdot.
The characterisation of them as 'corrupt and evil' because they have a job to do and they happen to disagree with Slashdot groupthink is the false assumption here, nothing to do with the actual spec at all.
The tiniest bit of analysis will lead them to conclude that it is technically impossible to merge their format with OOXML, since OOXML is not adequately defined. Yeah, because everybody should stop at a tiny bit of analysis.
Incidentally I just did a tiny bit of analysis on ODF and decided it shouldn't be used because it doesn't define formulae at all.
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If I was going to have kids, I would pass that story on to them.
No matter whether the system sucks or not, if this had stood, quite a few other companies would have been subject to the same kind of payout. I think someone below posted this link to a list: Click to read.
On that list are IBM, Linspire and Sun. The original decision was bad for everyone, though it obviously didn't knock you off your pedestal.
I gave you observed and derived figures, you give me conjecture and, well, rhetoric and bullshit.
Business as usual, then. Got anything concrete to back that up?
You never disproved my assertion that selling a wider range of products leads to less sales of the products being sold, either. That's probably because you can't.
So Netcraft doesn't tell you how they generate their stats, Netcraft chooses strange ways of grouping products, and Netcraft polls one site 1.6 times more than the next site (conveniently ignoring the fact that the next site is an Apache server and is polled almost twice as much as the next site on the list)... therefore Microsoft is gaming Netcraft.
I'd argue with you but you'd drag me down to your level and beat me with experience.
Looks like both to me. It still proves my point - IIS is not just for plain HTML webpages.
Our anonymous friend has answered for me - look up what 'LAMP' means.
eBay is a cookie cutter site?
Let us venture into Twitter's brain to see the thought process behind this post:
"What? Evidence that Linux lost marketshare in something? UNPOSSIBLE! Looks like I'll have to make something up as usual!"
Are you that insecure in the software you use that you have to see any minor percentage point change in something as either the end of Microsoft or anti-Linux FUD?
It does if you want to be listened to. Talking bollocks because everyone else is talking bollocks only ensures that they'll treat you like they do everyone else.
Talking sense when everyone else around you has none is more likely to get you somewhere.
Forced in what way? By circumstance or by someone holding you at knifepoint?
I think you need to reassess the difference between "Use this because it's more practical when you're working with other companies" and "Use this because if you don't you're a morally reprehensible person who cares nothing for freedom from software oppression".
I've had clients threaten to take their business elsewhere because of an Excel report that had some incorrect formatting, so it's not too far-fetched (unfortunately).
So, car analogies are a Microsoft disinformation tool!?
Do you honestly not think before you write something down?
You might want to actually visit the website once, just so you can read the part where you can use any of 4 different control schemes - Gamecube controller, Wii Classic Controller, Wiimote & Nunchuck or Wiimote.
What's even funnier is that Netscape didn't go bust. Ever.
When Netscape 5 didn't get any marketshare, they funded the Mozilla Organisation to help them code 6. That's when they were bought by AOL. Even if the Netscape 4 issue was at the same time as the dot-com crash, Netscape would never have been a part of the crash anyway!
Isn't that exactly what the GPL is meant to do?
Trouble is, it doesn't take a degree in mathematics to notice that taking a cross-section of the Slashdot populace is going to result in an incredibly skewed dataset with regards to Microsoft matters - which is good, because I don't have a degree in mathematics.
I would like to remind you that Slashdot is a corner of the internet inhabited by, well, geeks. If one subsect of a population with a mostly common viewpoint thinks you're unpopular, it's more likely to be social rather than smart :)
Normally I avoid outright insulting you but GP was right, you are stupid.
Except ISO are still a standards body, i.e. a collection of minds, and you're one guy on Slashdot.
The characterisation of them as 'corrupt and evil' because they have a job to do and they happen to disagree with Slashdot groupthink is the false assumption here, nothing to do with the actual spec at all.
Incidentally I just did a tiny bit of analysis on ODF and decided it shouldn't be used because it doesn't define formulae at all.
Silly me. I thought that if OOXML gets an ISO certification it doesn't prove anything other than that they know more about standards than you.