Gawwwd; HOW old are you?

Anyway, not cool at all, coolguy!

Oh sorry , how could how we doubted about Microsoft’s products quality?

It has products? That’s news to me.

“Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft’s European business security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the code itself has pieces missing.
“Usually Microsoft doesn’t develop products, we buy products. It’s not a bad
product, but bits and pieces are missing,” said Edelmann.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286351,00.htm

To be fair, Google is no better,

I choose my freedom and values of sharing over anything else.

Bill Gates and Ballmer are cursed to hell. They are the incarnate of the satan and his team of evil doers.

CoolGuy, you obsiously have NO serious experience with anything outside the Linux realm. Vista may suck speedwise, but the security framework is very OK; Excel is really unmatched. Hm. Well, I guess there are some other worthwhile Linux-products, but I cannot recall any… *grin*

Oh sorry , how could how we doubted about Microsoft’s products quality? They pay our wills, man, we shouldn’t offend our benevolent IT world leaders! I am gonna send a love letter to our majesty Steve Ballmer.

He would quickly lose all the control of vendor lock in, firmware updates, etc. Steve Jobs is far from an electronics messiah and actually quite the opposite, but in a world dominated by Microsoft people are willing to ignore his insane control schemes.

Don’t ever expect Apple to be an open source advocate in any way other then to promote itself, for itself, by itself.

Steve Jobs = Apple; Will be interesting to see where the company goes when he is gone.

and I guess you are a blatant troll

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But anyway, my point: You are a clueless ignorant; just the one I WOULDN’T trust with lobbying for Linux – because you simply have no idea what you’re talking about. Ignorance makes good believers but bad advocates of the right cause.

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Ballmar would going nuts today hearing all the doom and gloom surrounding M$ today. All their years of exploitation has come to an end finally.

Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds are our Messiah !!!

No one wants them…

As for Apple, Linux is a threat to it too, but especially at the low-end segment. Apple is in a situation similar to that of Microsoft, but whereas Microsoft is at the “fight” stage, Apple is still at “ignore” (not even “ridicule”).

Here is a very recent good post:

Where are the Mac to Linux ports?

“I’m not talking about Apple’s own apps. Apple would surely like to pretend Linux doesn’t exist. No, wait, scratch that. Apple DOES pretend Linux doesn’t exist. And they have good reason to. Just like Microsoft, they don’t want to offer aid and comfort to the enemy; and what with OS X being based on BSD, they probably think it would open the door to someone figuring out how to run Leopard’s GUI on the Linux kernel. And they might be right.”

Apple isn’t worth worrying about at this stage because it helps in diversifying the market and ridiculing Microsoft (e.g. with Mac ads). It demotes and gradually dethrones the monoculture in some areas. In a way, Linux has a similar healthy impact on Apple in the embedded and HPC sector where it reigns. This prevents further Windows growth.

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Wow….Linux is not “owned” by anyone, that the beauty of it. I an can imagine the possibilities, I can guarantee you that iPhone sales would have gone up even more had he chose Linux instead. I would have bought one then, and just imagine Ubuntu on the iPhone then.

D.