Re: Why Linux is not getting poplular in Desktop in any Corporate world?
From: Aragorn (stryder_at_telenet.invalid)
Date: 08/24/05
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:34:54 GMT
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:52, Blood Money stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses...:
> The following story (which has probably been posted in COLA a million
> times) talks about how Microsoft threatened to sue foreign
> companies/governments because they switched to Linux. Ballmer's
> defensive comments are pretty revealing. If they don't have anything
> to worry about... why do they sound so worried?
I'd rather say that it's just another one of their misinformation
campaigns. ;-)
<snip>
> Thu 18 November, 2004 19:35
>
> SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O warned Asian governments
> on Thursday they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux
> operating system instead of its Windows software.
A flagrant lie, as we know. The only operating system that threatens
people with patent violations and claims patents where it holds none is
Windows. ;-)
> The growing popularity of Linux -- an open-code software that is
> freely available on the Internet and easily modified by users -- is a
> threat to the global dominance of Microsoft's Windows.
Yup. Great, huh? :-)
> Linux violates more than 228 patents, according to a recent report
> from a research group, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at
> the company's Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore.
Total BS, of course. If that were truly the case, then Gnu/Linux would
have already been outlawed a long time ago. Microsoft is just
appealing on their hope that SCO would win the legal battle with IBM
there.
> "Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO (World Trade
> Organization), somebody will come and look for money owing to the
> rights for that intellectual property," he added.
FUD, as usual...
> The Open Source Risk Management Group said earlier this year that
> potential intellectual property claims against Linux could expose
> users to unexpected claims that might result in lawsuits.
Only if Europe would allow the unlimited patentability, which the
European Parliament has in the meantime rejected. Wishful thinking,
Steve. <grin>
> Software developer SCO Group Inc. SCOX.O , which claims that Linux is
> based on its Unix software, is suing companies including International
> Business Machines Corp. IBM.N .
And here we are... Just what I said above. ;-)
> Singapore's Ministry of Defense last month switched 20,000 personal
> computers to run on open-source software instead of the Microsoft
> operating platform.
Which we can only welcome with great joy... :-)
> Other governments in the region are also looking to use more
> open-source software. China, Japan and South Korea this year agreed to
> jointly develop applications running on Linux.
Somebody's playhouse is starting to come apart... ;-)
> At a conference in Milan later on Thursday, Microsoft Chairman Bill
> Gates avoided a direct answer when asked whether he was worried about
> competition from Linux.
Of course he did. He *knows* what a lying bunch of megalomaniacs his
company comprises of. <grin>
> "In the market where Microsoft is, there's a lot of competition," he
> said. "We compete with Unix and we're doing very well because the
> Windows (market) share has increased every year.
So does the world population and the number of people making their first
contact with a computer - which are typically always sold with an OEM
version of Windows pre-installed.
> It's out there; it's something we compete against."
Well it's funny, as he took that back a short while later, saying that
Windows and UNIX are too different, and that Gnu/Linux is not a
competitor for Windows but for proprietary UNIX - which is the truth.
> The Chinese government, in particular, sees its reliance on Microsoft
> as a potential threat.
Any government should, and I'm not even talking about the technical
aspects of Windows here. I'm referring to the Microsoft strategy,
which is built around pure megalomania and greed.
> Conspiracy buffs believe certain patches in the Windows code might
> give U.S. authorities the power to access Chinese networks and disable
> them, possibly during a war over Taiwan.
This is a proven fact. Windows NT and Windows 2000 had two deliberately
built-in backdoors, which each required a special access key, universal
to all copies of said Windows versions. One such key was/is in the
hands of Microsoft itself, the other one was/is in the hands of the
NSA.
> Ballmer said the security fears some governments had about using
> Microsoft software were overblown.
Of course he did. What else would he say? "Of course we put in some
backdoors, because we're the American Dream and intend to exterminate
whatever commies are left in this world"? :-)
Well, it'd be nice for a change if they were to admit it... :-þ
> "We think our software is far more secure than open-source software.
> It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we
> built it.
That should more correctly read as : "We stand behind it because it
ensures our domination of the market, we fix it when it suits our
public relation needs - provided that we can of course; we sort of
messed around a bit in stealing various bits of code from other
platforms which we don't even understand as we're actually quite
clueless when it comes to serious IT - and we conceived it ourselves as
a total rip-off of IBM's OS/2, whom we conned out of the deal for
making the next generation of OS/2 by making the Windows API its main
designation.
> Nobody ever knows who built open-source software," he added.
> --
> Grants for Free Software development in the UK:
> http://www.affs.org.uk/grants/
> - -
>
> I love that comment; "Nobody ever knows who built open-source
> software" ! Ha! That's a Ball-(mer) faced lie!
According to scientists, both man and apes stems from the same primate.
I think Ballmer must have evolved along the ape branch... :-þ
Now you know where the trolls of Middle-Earth come from. Redmond! ;-þ
> Every single piece of software ever written for OSS is signed by the
> developer/author. Usually, if I have a problem with an OSS app, I can
> contact the developer *directly* via email - or even telephone - and
> don't have to pay a whopping $250 to open an "Incident."
US $250, for which you're talking to people who are even more clueless
than you are and who will in the end only resort to storing the
"incident" in a database for future reference. ;-)
And that's just for a phonecall. God forbid if they ever have to come
over to your business. Then it's about US $400 per hour. And hour
they will typically spend reformatting your /sea-drive/ and
reinstalling Windows... 8-)
-- With kind regards, *Aragorn* (Registered Gnu/Linux user #223157)
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