--- On Tue, 7/21/09, gilpel@altern.org gilpel@altern.org wrote:
From: gilpel@altern.org gilpel@altern.org Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:33 PM
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 08:08
+0500, gilpel@altern.org wrote:
Excuse me for being rude
No.
Oh, and I'm middle-aged, and run a debt free
business. Being doing so
for over twenty years. i.e. I live in the real
world, and one that's
well managed.
The one needing to get a clue, here, is you. You
ONLY speak for
yourself, and opinions are NOT facts.
I was just about to go to bed but this message kept haunting me. There's lots of truth in what you say here: why care about anything but the facts and be haunted by questions instead of facts? Sometimes I really wished I was like you...
Microsoft has 90% of market share, Linux only 1% and people at Microsoft certainly are very glad. So, why should we be sad? Wouldn't this be giving Microsoft an edge in gladness?
And if, tomorrow, Linux only has only .01% of the desktop market, would that be any reason to be sad? Of course not, since you and the codec geeks -- they'll undoubtedly be the last! -- will always hold the flag. So, you'll be glad not to be bothered by know-nothing like me and Microsoft... will they ever be glad!
Once again, everybody will be glad. So why worry, be happy!
Still, a last question keeps haunting me. No doubt, by now, since it's all well documented facts, you've read "From Microsoft Word to Microsoft World". In this document, Newman explains how, using its proprietary formats, Microsoft got rid of pretty much all competition. It brought every company to their knees, thn, bought and scrapped them one after the other.
Of course, Microsoft can't play this game with Linux, since Linux uses... or tries to use open formats. Still, sometimes I wonder if, with all the money it has, Microsoft couldn't find a way to keep the cap on Linux. You know, keep it at an acceptable level of nuisance, say, 1% of market share after 18 years.
Arrrgh! I'm afraid that's what I'll dream about tonight. What a pain I am, even to myself!
--
Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook and others. In a last ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code to linux. Check out this at distrowatch.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720
I like comment 133. It sounds just about right. There are many nice comments there. BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really falling off or are they the Borg that is portrayed in comment 133?
Regards,
Antonio
I think Linux is much more than 1%.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14031@yahoo.comwrote:
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, gilpel@altern.org gilpel@altern.org wrote:
From: gilpel@altern.org gilpel@altern.org Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist? To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <
fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:33 PM
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 08:08
+0500, gilpel@altern.org wrote:
Excuse me for being rude
No.
Oh, and I'm middle-aged, and run a debt free
business. Being doing so
for over twenty years. i.e. I live in the real
world, and one that's
well managed.
The one needing to get a clue, here, is you. You
ONLY speak for
yourself, and opinions are NOT facts.
I was just about to go to bed but this message kept haunting me. There's lots of truth in what you say here: why care about anything but the facts and be haunted by questions instead of facts? Sometimes I really wished I was like you...
Microsoft has 90% of market share, Linux only 1% and people at Microsoft certainly are very glad. So, why should we be sad? Wouldn't this be giving Microsoft an edge in gladness?
And if, tomorrow, Linux only has only .01% of the desktop market, would that be any reason to be sad? Of course not, since you and the codec geeks -- they'll undoubtedly be the last! -- will always hold the flag. So, you'll be glad not to be bothered by know-nothing like me and Microsoft... will they ever be glad!
Once again, everybody will be glad. So why worry, be happy!
Still, a last question keeps haunting me. No doubt, by now, since it's all well documented facts, you've read "From Microsoft Word to Microsoft World". In this document, Newman explains how, using its proprietary formats, Microsoft got rid of pretty much all competition. It brought every company to their knees, thn, bought and scrapped them one after the other.
Of course, Microsoft can't play this game with Linux, since Linux uses... or tries to use open formats. Still, sometimes I wonder if, with all the money it has, Microsoft couldn't find a way to keep the cap on Linux. You know, keep it at an acceptable level of nuisance, say, 1% of market share after 18 years.
Arrrgh! I'm afraid that's what I'll dream about tonight. What a pain I am, even to myself!
--
Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook and others. In a last ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code to linux. Check out this at distrowatch.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720
I like comment 133. It sounds just about right. There are many nice comments there. BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really falling off or are they the Borg that is portrayed in comment 133?
Regards,
Antonio
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'Tonio wrote:
Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook and others. In a last ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code to linux. Check out this at distrowatch.
Since Linux is strongon th server market, they want to attract them to Hyper-V, from what I've read. So?
BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really falling off
Red Hat signed "a contract" and Suse signed "a contract", so Red Hat ans Suse are just the same for both signing "a contract".
Which "a contract" have both companies signed?
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