Re: 2005 will see increased astro turfing from M$
From: Chris Meissen (brolin_1911a1_at_REMOVEyahoo.com)
Date: 05/30/05
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Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:27:03 -0500
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:36:24 GMT, 7
<website_has_email@www.ecu.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>Warren Harding wrote:
>
>> I've tried both Suse 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1 this weekend on a Dell computer
>> and I can confirm that while both of them installed fine they suck beyond
>> belief when I used them.
>> How anyone can compare:
>> k3b to nero.
>> Openoffice to MSOffice.
>> gnucash to quicken
>> audacity to Wavelab
>>
>> anything Linux to anything Windows is far beyond my reasoning.
>>
>> These Linux applications stink beyond belief and some are so bad you can't
>> even keep them running for more than a couple of minutes without locking
>> up the entire computer.
>> And this is supposed to be better than Windows?
>> No way!
>
>2005 sees increased astro turfing as M$ loses market share
>as per predictions, and because M$ is losing money
>instead of fixing their products, they would rather
>spend it on astro turfing posting like this
>hoping to gather up more stupid payees
>that will pay Billy Goats some more money. .....
Astro turfing, eh? First time I've heard that term but it fits.
I know one thing is certain, Mr. Harding is full of bovine excrement.
I'm running a dual boot Win98/Linspire 4.5 AMD K6-2 machine at 333MHz.
I run the Win98 side for awhile when the spam gets too bad because
Mailwasher doesn't run under Linux. After a week or so of running
mailwasher under Win98 and bouncing spam, the spam is down and I can
run Linux for the rest of my activities.
Whenever I want to burn a DVD or CD, I reboot into Linspire because
K3b is soooo much better than Nero. Nero and Windows worry about
property rights management, whether or not I'm still using the burner
that was bundled with the version of Nero I'm using, etc. K3b simply
burns the disk quickly, efficiently, and with no unnecessary questions
or complications.
I've been using Open Office for at least two, maybe three years now.
I have M$ Office 97 available but find I *prefer* Open Office. I run
it under both Win98 and Linspire on all of my computers. In fact,
unless someone brings the subject up, I forget I even have the
expensive M$ product on the machine since I never use it. (Which makes
me wonder why I've never gotten around to deleting it and recovering
the massive amount of disk space it takes up. -- Laziness, I guess.)
Best of all, the Linux OSes and applications don't "phone home" to get
permission or send information about the files I open or have on my
hard drive. Want to listen to an mp3? No problem with Linux unlike
Win Media which wants to check for licenses first. What I have on my
machine is nobody's business but mine and Linux, unlike Microsoft,
respects that idea.
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