Its probably just a stupid decision to hard code the Microsoft Operating System tag as they only expected to include those but now Ubuntu is popular and they are supporting it , they have probably forgotten about their hard coded program. Or maybe it is too hard to change the coding until the next revision.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-13 12:02:23
Indeed. But that would be as tactless as a restaurant putting beverages under the "Coca Cola drinks:" heading.
Doug
2009-05-13 12:04:07
> Its probably just a stupid decision to hard code the Microsoft Operating System tag
I doubt it's a mistake, given the history of MS and its relentless attempt to totally own mindshare. Similarly with Microsoft 'open source' and them turning up at Open Source conferences to 'explain' what 'open source' should be :)
Google results 1 - 10 of about 385,000 for "microsoft open source"
zelrik
2009-05-13 13:54:15
I think you guys think too hard. It might just be Dell being fucking idiots, which wouldnt surprise me at all. By the way there are much better OEM's for Linux as shown here : http://wiki.club-ubuntu.org/index.php/Category:Linux_Computers
Garrett was the first person to face sanctions (like muting) in our IRC channels because of his abuse; worse yet, he hijacked other people's names and then locked them out of their own accounts
People creating their own platforms means progress, whereas centralisation (like moving from blogs to social control media) is the opposite of progress
If it was googlebot, it would be possible to argue that you'd at least then get referral traffic from Google Search. With LLMs, all you get is plagiarised.
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Kitkat
2009-05-13 11:53:31
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-13 12:02:23
Doug
2009-05-13 12:04:07
I doubt it's a mistake, given the history of MS and its relentless attempt to totally own mindshare. Similarly with Microsoft 'open source' and them turning up at Open Source conferences to 'explain' what 'open source' should be :)
Google results 1 - 10 of about 385,000 for "microsoft open source"
zelrik
2009-05-13 13:54:15
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-13 14:10:35
Gentoo User
2009-05-13 16:23:14
Heh, quite the opposite actually. Obviously.
XfX
2009-05-27 12:40:23