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
- Lots of Microsoft Just Loses Money, Not Earning Money
- Due to profitability challenges it's hard to believe Microsoft will ever find a buyer for XBox
- Touch Grass
- Happiness involves what humans have evolved to appreciate, not what humans create to sedate the mind (like skinnerboxes)
- The Cyber Show on Technology Having Become a Tool of Mass Psychosis, Not Enablement or Emancipation
- Technology as mass psychosis
- The Rumour Said That a Second Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Would Come This Week (Ahead of Fake 'Results'), Maybe Tomorrow
- Let's wait and see how "MSM" unfold
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- Only a Matter of Time Before IBM Drops to $199 or a Lot Lower Than That
- How long can IBM overload empty shells?
- From GAFAM's Perspective, Jeremy Bicha Did Nothing Wrong
- All is OK as long as he does not criticise monopolists and billionaires
- Bluesky Was Such an Utter Failure That After 18 Months Mozilla Goes Hug a Nazi Platform That Produces Child Porn
- What compels Mozilla to come back there? The child pornography scandal? The adorable leader?
- GNU/Linux at Grenada Measured at 14% This Month
- GNU/Linux was stuck at 0% for a long time
- In WordPress, Newer is Not Better (Maybe Better Off With No WordPress at All)
- To Hell with bloat and feature churn
- As Slop Bubble Implodes (Inevitable), the Dishonest, Corrupt, Compromised Media Tries to Blame "China" Again (Like it Did With "DeepSeek" in Past Years)
- Here we go again. We've been there before. Same spin, this time not "DeepSeek" though.
- Red Hat (IBM) Has Long 'Reassigned' (Bluewashed) Red Hat Staff to Ruin Fedora, Now It Does the Same to GNOME
- What next from IBM's Krishna?
- Links 21/07/2026: Google Stagnating, Slop 'Apps' Are "Flooding Apple’s App Store"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 21/07/2026: OPNSense Upgrade Problems, Zilog Z80 at 50, and Lessons From Terminator
- Links for the day
- IBM Lawsuits Over Alleged Fraud Are Piling Up
- We'll keep an eye on the lawsuits
- Arianna Taite on Odds of Australian (Daniel Pocock) Winning Clacton By-Election
- His detractors somehow try to twist or frame him (Pocock) as an impediment to women while the exact opposite is true
- This Coming Weekend Marks 4 Years Since We Dumped Content Management Systems (CMSs) in Favour of Static Site Generators (SSGs)
- the first page dated July 25
- Slop's Latest Casualty: The Credibility of Linus Torvalds
- If you care about millionaires and billionaires, follow Torvalds (he is already in that "club")
- Techrights Will Become More Productive (More Output) Over Time
- Big stories about to land
- To Wikipedia, "Notability" is Just an Excuse to Hail People Who Serve Billionaires While Marginalising or Defaming the Rest
- Wikipedia is an advertising space
- Our Series About Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and SLAPPs Will Resume Soon
- Originally, in 2025, we gave ourselves 6 years (until 2031) to cover these issues, but we've seen since extended that to 10 years (until 2036) because of the amount of material we have
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO Transparency Gap
- Despite the "European" tag in the organisation's name, the European Union has no jurisdiction over the European Patent Organisation
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 20, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, July 20, 2026
- Links 20/07/2026: Lashes for Songs in Iran, Kurdish Language at Risk
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 21/07/2026: The Boss Baby (2017) and 2026 Old Computer Challenge Epilogue
- Links for the day
- Canonical Staff Acting Like They Aim to Receive Job Offers From Microsoft
- There are moreover allegations that Debian will do the same, in the same way Mono boosters infected both distros in tandem or in turn.
- Worsening Staff Affairs at Microsoft
- Microsoft is managing to piss off many of its own workers
- Czech Mate for GNU/Linux on the Way
- Czechoslovakia is having none of that "peace for our time" with Microsoft
- Nobody Will be Left Who Trusts IBM Anymore
- The common theme is, the management must be completely replaced as soon as possible and truth needs to come out
- Wall Street is a Bubble and No Company is Worth 5 Trillion Dollars
- It's not hard to see which stocks will crash the hardest (or fastest)
- The Corrupt Have Historically Tried to Paint Their Exposers as the Real Problem
- As usual, there are efforts to shoot or muzzle the messenger
- Search Engine Market Share in Italy: Microsoft Falls to Third in Many Countries Including Italy
- Expect more layoffs in Bing
- Links 20/07/2026: Spotify Drowning in Slop, Expiry of Software Patents in MPEG-4
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 20/07/2026: Another Step Towards Owning Personal Data and Gemtext2 Envisioned
- Links for the day
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Public Missions and Private Ambitions
- Despite the French government's strong formal pushback, the lobbying momentum generated by Campinos and Negrão proved unstoppable
- "DOOM" and "Bloodbath": the State of Microsoft and XBox
- Way to piss off fans
- Karen Melchior Fought the Good Fight
- stay tuned for Part 29
- Links 20/07/2026: Notes on E-mail Encryption, Torvalds and His Employer Paid a Lot to Promote Slop (Pyramid Scheme)
- Links for the day
- What a Difference Six Years Make...
- We are also beta-testing a new feature for the site; we plan to announce it some time soon
- When It Comes to Slop, Richard Stallman is Opposite of Linus Torvalds
- When it comes to computing, Dr. Stallman has long been a voice of reason
- Daniel Pocock is in Mainstream Media This Week
- Pocock's haters will absolutely hate this
- In His Departure Post, Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) Explains Why Linus Torvalds is Full of "Hot Air" and Slop Bubbles
- Having lived through previous bubbles as a UNIX geek, phk cannot be ignored
- Whistleblowers Keep Flowing
- Later today a police investigator should phone us regarding death threats we've received
- We Need Less Gadgets, More Humanity
- If people are being honest with themselves, many of the gadgets they claim they "cannot live without" are just excesses and distractions they could definitely leave behind
- Technology and Gadgets Got Obese, Just Like Their Users
- They now sell us so-called 'phones' for slop
- Daniel Pocock in The Guardian This Morning
- There is an opportunity here to spread a message, even if Pocock won't win a seat
- "Samsung Recently Projected a 19-fold Surge in Second-Quarter Operating Profit", Now There Are Mass Layoffs
- In a 9-month period Samsung's debt rose by about 80%
- Gemini Links 20/07/2026: Dungeon Meshi/Undertale Crossover, "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dark Web and Beyond"
- Links for the day
- IBM's Control of the Media "Just Showed What Taking Accountability Does Not Look Like"
- It is no secret that IBM pays the media
- Microsoft Loses XBox Lawsuit, But There Are More
- The collapse of studios continues
- GNU/Linux Approaching International Average in Djibouti
- One can envisage further gains for GNU/Linux, seeing Microsoft is in such a bad shape
- Daniel Pocock "[t]he Australian Taking on Nigel Farage — from Down Under"
- This can help raise awareness of some issues
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 19, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, July 19, 2026
- Misleading Coverage in Slashdot Promotes and Openwashes Slop
- Piggybacking RMS for the headline seems like a PR stunt of sorts
- As Envisioned, a Rebellion and Many Whistleblowers at Microsoft
- Whistleblowers ensure Microsoft has totally lost control of the "narrative" (face-saving PR)
- Microsoft is a Right-Wing Company
- Just remember that when people call Microsoft "woke"
- GNU/Linux "Market Share" Rises to About a Quarter in Sudan
- Can anyone explain to us why?
- Gemini Links 19/07/2026: Visiting Ethiopia, Two Dreams, and Price of Skinnerboxes
- Links for the day
- Tears in IBM, Company Falls Apart While Management Fakes "Performance" to Take Bonuses
- Wall Street is a naked emperor
- Telling Our Story
- In the coming years we'll have some high-impact stories to share and generally tell without fear of reprisal
- Microsoft XBox Studio Leaders Upset at What the New CEO Did
- From what we can gather, in 2024 XBox was already entering what's known as a "death spiral". Now it's literally moving down the drain/pipe.
- IRC Started in Finland, GNU/Linux Did Not
- History is like that
- GNU/Linux Rises to 8% in Bhutan, Same as the International Average
- Taking note of estimated GNU/Linux share in that country, we see it hovering around the international median/average this month
- Links 19/07/2026: "The Voice of Google" and "Chinese Surveillance Tech a Threat to Privacy"
- Links for the day
- Keep Both Eyes on the Ball
- At the moment we have six series running in parallel; two of them concern the EPO
- 'Journalists' Who Help IBM Cover Up Fraud
- Journalistic malpractice
- The "Modern Linux" Song
- Join us now, make the kernel
- XBox Layoffs Vastly Bigger Than Microsoft Told the Press, Microsoft Keeps Trying to Change the Subject
- Many so-called "XBox fans" are no more
- Microsoft Lost 1,200 Billion Dollars in "Market Value", Take a Look at What Happened to Windows
- while Windows continues to fall unstoppably GNU/Linux is surging
- Links 19/07/2026: People in China Are Buying Feelings and 404 Media Has Third Anniversary
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/07/2026: Camping, Health, and Hardware
- Links for the day
- The State of Slopfarms
- Slopfarms or LLM slopfarms are a menace and a problem on the Web
- GNU/Linux Rising to 6% in Brunei
- seventh in the world for GDP (PPP) per capita
- Free Software is Like an 'Activist Movement'
- People who argue strongly in favour of something (even very good things) will attract the wrath of those whom they oppose
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 18, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, July 18, 2026
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!!!!