The funny part about the whole thing to me is that whatever secrets they were protecting so viciously can't have been so important. Talk about lost perspective. No one could possibly have cared very much. The only news turned out to be the bizarre countermeasures that were employed to address this supposedly diar leak issue.
It would have been better for them to have silently discovered the leak and then started staging fake meetings and releasing wildly stupid information, causing both the leak and the new sites that used the leak to lose credibility. Guess no sense of humor.
I run XP on my home PC, not because I like the OS, but because I like how easy it is to try new applications on, and the vast availablity of games that never have a hope of becoming popular enough for a port.
I run Mac OSX at work because it is the best operating system for me to be using in my design job with light code requirements.
I run Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop because it's a nice general OS for communicating with friends, blogging, and coding on.
If I tried to switch any of those duties around, I'd come up short.
The reality, in my opinion is that there can't be a 'winner'. We need each and every OS available to us.
Heck, at home I've still got room enough on my desk for an Amiga 3000, and to this day, there are things that I prefer it for.
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The funny part about the whole thing to me is that whatever secrets they were protecting so viciously can't have been so important. Talk about lost perspective. No one could possibly have cared very much. The only news turned out to be the bizarre countermeasures that were employed to address this supposedly diar leak issue.
It would have been better for them to have silently discovered the leak and then started staging fake meetings and releasing wildly stupid information, causing both the leak and the new sites that used the leak to lose credibility. Guess no sense of humor.
I run XP on my home PC, not because I like the OS, but because I like how easy it is to try new applications on, and the vast availablity of games that never have a hope of becoming popular enough for a port. I run Mac OSX at work because it is the best operating system for me to be using in my design job with light code requirements. I run Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop because it's a nice general OS for communicating with friends, blogging, and coding on. If I tried to switch any of those duties around, I'd come up short. The reality, in my opinion is that there can't be a 'winner'. We need each and every OS available to us. Heck, at home I've still got room enough on my desk for an Amiga 3000, and to this day, there are things that I prefer it for.