Links 05/05/2008: More Feasibility Tests of GNU/Linux for Enterprise Desktops
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-05 16:59:09 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-05 16:59:09 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Claim That Finance and HR at IBM Already Work on the Next Wave of IBM Layoffs, Media Silence Persists
- The media is still telling misleading nonsense about IBM layoffs (like some fantasy about 'rehiring' thousands for "AI")
- Claims of More IBM Layoffs a Week Before 'Christmas Week'
- Of course, as usual, nobody in the media says anything
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- Publication Plans for the Coming Weeks
- We've begun this week with many articles and plan to carry on until tomorrow
- EPO People Power - Part XIV - EPO Management Living in Fantasy Land
- wrongly assumes that any crime committed by the EPO will always be brushed aside
- Secret Code is Undesirable
- If someone wants you to use proprietary software, say no. Secret code is even worse.
- Google News Still Has an LLM Slop Problem (With Slop Images Too), But Google Itself is a Pusher of Slop
- If Google keeps shilling and selling slop as "AI", and moreover if people keep hating slop (there's growing awareness of this problem), then at the end Google will suffer greatly
- Gemini Links 16/12/2025: Bingo Card and i586 in 2025
- Links for the day
- Links 16/12/2025: Security and Conflict (No Territorial Concessions in Ukraine)
- Links for the day
- With Half of December Over, FSF Two-Thirds of the Way Towards Funding Goal
- If you can share some money this month, the FSF should be a priority
- A Lot of People Don't Want "Smart" (Things That Spy, Stop Working, Cannot be Repaired Easily)
- They also don't want slop disguised as "intelligence"
- Links 16/12/2025: More GAFAM (Now Amazon) Layoffs and iRobot Chapter 11
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, December 15, 2025
- Wrapping Up and Ending "Slopwatch"
- An "end-of-life" improvement
- Gemini Links 15/12/2025: How We Lost Communication to Entertainment, Dichotomy Between the Real and the Digital
- Links for the day
- The New Chief Editor at The Register MS is a Microsofter, Now They Increase Microsoft Coverage and Add Microsoft Slant to 'Linux' Coverage
- Did Microsoft pay some more?
- GAFAM "doesn't depend on any sort of lock-in, humans just don't want to be free anymore," according to MinceR
- As many readers are aware, our criticism of UEFI (restricted boot in particular) attracted a lot of online harassment against us, including stalking and libel
- IBM Layoffs in India and IBM's CEO Spins His Lack of Market Share as a Strength
- If this leadership carries on, the only red left at IBM won't be Red Hat but a red stain
- Links 15/12/2025: "Life in Prison" for Criticising China, Tikhanovskaya Says 'Pressure Works'
- Links for the day
- Due to 'Secure Boot' (An Anti-Security Measure, a Kill Switch) Computer Users Are Afraid of GNU/Linux
- This is what Microsoft wanted
- 'Crypto' 'Currencies' Are a Ponzi Scheme. So Is "AI". Both Destroy the Planet, Not Just the Economy.
- Believe it or not, millions of these GPUs just sit there boxed, unopened, unconnected, unused
- The Register MS Has Just Been Paid to Promote the Ponzi Scheme Some More ("AI" Keyword Stuffing)
- This won't end well for The Register MS
- Microsoft Colonialism in Africa is Not Sustainable
- Microsoft's situation in Nigeria is not
- Perpetuating the Lie of "No Red Hat Layoffs" Because of the Bluewashing (Red Hat Became Just "IBM")
- Many Red Hat employees were pushed out and/or removed lately
- EPO People Power - Part XIII - If the EPO's Chief Propagandist (Berenguer) Told the Police He Was a Spanish Tourist (or Similar) or That He Does Not Reside in Munich, Then He May Have Lied to the Police (in Addition to Doing Cocaine in Public)
- Lying to the police in Germany is a criminal offense
- Links 15/12/2025: Chromebooks as Work Machines, "Americans [Who] Moved to Australia" to Avoid Cheeto
- Links for the day
- Breaking Your Proprietary Router in the Name of "Security"
- Each time they "patch" the router something that previously worked OK is likely to just break
- IBM May be Breaking the Law to Silence Staff It Laid Off
- Observation to add regarding IBM layoffs
- Demonisation Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) - Including Antisemitic Attacks - Have Not Worked
- Name-calling doesn't work
- Slop ("AI") Will Replace People and Take Away Jobs, Say the Slopfarms With Fake (LLM-Generated) Text and Slop Images
- "AI" often means slave labour in a poor country
- More Than a Million Bytes Should be Enough for Most Computer Programs
- Who said computing would improve over time?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 14, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, December 14, 2025
- Another "AI" (Slop) Use Cases Turns Out to be a Fraud
- Those who talk about this fraud get SLAPPed
- They Say Rules Are Made to be Broken, at Microsoft That Became an Imperative (e.g. Accounting Fraud, Bribery and So on)
- Its biggest client is itself
- In Russia, Microsoft is Already a Dying Breed Online
- A lot of Europe also dumps Microsoft. Europe is a big revenue source of Microsoft.
- The Future of News on the World Wide Web
- No "greener pastures" on the Web
- 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐀𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐚: Proof That at IBM People Fall Upwards
- IBM is collapsing
- EPO People Power - Part XII - The Mobbing Got So Bad People Were Unable to Work
- What's at stake here isn't just the EPO or the patent system
- Links 14/12/2025: "Chile to ban smartphones in classroom" and "Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 14/12/2025: "GUI TUI CLI" and EmacsConf 2025 Video
- Links for the day
- Links 14/12/2025: Tensions in Asia, US Making Deals With Belarus
- Links for the day
- A Utopian and Very Dumb Vision of Technology, Based on Accounting Fraud
- the "industry" has become insane and a lot of "the media" is going along with it
- Links 14/12/2025: "The Slop of Things to Come", Goldman Sachs Nervous About Slop Bubble
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, December 13, 2025
Comments
Bobby Blogger
2008-05-06 04:11:40
I don't believe Bill Gates will ever entirely let go of influence in the direction of Microsoft, even with his stepping down.
In my opinion, any real change in direction of Microsoft will begin when Gates passes away eventually, as we all end up going sometime, or if Microsoft goes bust as a company, which with its strong ties in the U.S., is unlikely to happen, even if everyone in the U.S. marched to their door and threw their software on their doorstep in rejection.
In my opinion I don't believe Microsoft will ever be capable of positive change, the kind of change which would truly benefit the consumer with free and open ideals in mind.
In my opinion Microsoft will remain the big fish with its mouth open, swallowing anything in its path and refusing to change for anybody. This stubborn, bullheaded approach will end up sinking it, but not before it wastes millions of dollars in eventual legal fees as the patent gloves are donned on the cougar to pounce, and the gloves are ready for a battle you can bet on it, especially with the the fall of the American dollar.
In my opinion, Microsoft is still the same monopoly on the desktop it was when it was convicted as a monopoly, if not a worse one. Stores across the United States still lack clear alternatives in Operating Systems to Microsoft Windows, and most people are still crack addicted to DirectX and other proprietary drugs Microsoft pushes to the people.
The change must come from without, with resistance to cooperation with Microsoft. You don't come out ahead when you drop your pants for Microsoft.
Many years from now, historians will delight in combing through Boycott Novell's website and the information retained on the convicted monopoly, while others were asleep, rubbing their crotches with their xbox, sending more of their hard earned money to Microsoft, while mouthing empty anti-Microsoft words all the while.
If you do not like Microsoft's actions as they continue to unfold:
Do not buy Microsoft's software Do not buy Microsoft's hardware Do not buy from companies dealing with Microsoft Do not buy games requiring DirectX (you only encourage its continuation) Encourage Linux and open source use whenever you can
Spread the word, condemn other people's use of Microsoft software and hardware like you would if you saw your best friend having unprotected sex with a hooker known to carry a disease.
Microsoft's limitations placed on us all must end, but it will only end like the war on marijuana and other plants nature has given us: When the people stand up and say NO MORE!
NO MORE!!!
Bobby Blogger
2008-05-06 04:13:16
I don't believe Bill Gates will ever entirely let go of influence in the direction of Microsoft, even with his stepping down.
In my opinion, any real change in direction of Microsoft will begin when Gates passes away eventually, as we all end up going sometime, or if Microsoft goes bust as a company, which with its strong ties in the U.S., is unlikely to happen, even if everyone in the U.S. marched to their door and threw their software on their doorstep in rejection.
In my opinion I don't believe Microsoft will ever be capable of positive change, the kind of change which would truly benefit the consumer with free and open ideals in mind.
In my opinion Microsoft will remain the big fish with its mouth open, swallowing anything in its path and refusing to change for anybody. This stubborn, bullheaded approach will end up sinking it, but not before it wastes millions of dollars in eventual legal fees as the patent gloves are donned on the cougar to pounce, and the gloves are ready for a battle you can bet on it, especially with the the fall of the American dollar.
In my opinion, Microsoft is still the same monopoly on the desktop it was when it was convicted as a monopoly, if not a worse one. Stores across the United States still lack clear alternatives in Operating Systems to Microsoft Windows, and most people are still crack addicted to DirectX and other proprietary drugs Microsoft pushes to the people.
The change must come from without, with resistance to cooperation with Microsoft. You don't come out ahead when you drop your pants for Microsoft.
Many years from now, historians will delight in combing through Boycott Novell's website and the information retained on the convicted monopoly, while others were asleep, rubbing their crotches with their xbox, sending more of their hard earned money to Microsoft, while mouthing empty anti-Microsoft words all the while.
If you do not like Microsoft's actions as they continue to unfold:
Do not buy Microsoft's software Do not buy Microsoft's hardware Do not buy from companies dealing with Microsoft Do not buy games requiring DirectX (you only encourage its continuation) Encourage Linux and open source use whenever you can
Spread the word, condemn other people's use of Microsoft software and hardware like you would if you saw your best friend having unprotected sex with a hooker known to carry a disease.
Microsoft's limitations placed on us all must end, but it will only end like the war on marijuana and other plants nature has given us: When the people stand up and say NO MORE!
NO MORE!!!!