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[News] Laura Didiot's Latest FUD Campaign

Reliability Survey: Windows Servers Beat Linux Boxes

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| On a broader note, said Yankee analyst Laura DiDio, the major
| server operating systems all have a "high degree of reliability," and
| have showed marked improvement in the last 3 to 5 years.
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http://www.
techweb.com/wire/software/188701822;jsessionid=KYRC1HUQJYGGKQSNDBCCKH0CJUMEKJVN

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Says who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio

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| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free, open
| operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free and
| open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though it is
| some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it like that,
| at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'"
| 
| On another occasion, she made a similar comment: "I'm all for open
| source, and competition serves everyone's interest. But if Linux is
| really to take its place alongside Windows... then the vendors in this
| space cannot act like a bunch of hippies in a '60s commune or ashram.
| There really is no such thing as a free lunch."
| 
| Unsurprisingly Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
| DiDio. Typical criticism are a lack of formal Computer Science
| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft, frequently
| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
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