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Re: The Future of Linux and Microsoft

  • Subject: Re: The Future of Linux and Microsoft
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:21:45 +0200
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"DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> *LOL* Microsoft is on its way out.
>
> Their income statements and balance sheets don't reflect that - and for a 
> public corporation what's found there is ALL that matters.  Certainly 
> disgruntled foreigners blabbing uninformed idiocy on backwater newsgroups 
> won't affect them.
>
>
>> The browser is /still/ designed to deliberately break standards,
>
> I have something interesting for you and the cola bozos to spin: 
> www.microsoft.com fails W3C markup validation with 2 errors, and RedHat 
> fails with 19.
>
>
>> as well impose inconveniences upon any competition.
>
> Yes, it will be inconvenient if it's better than the competition.  Either 
> way, it will trounce Firefox and Opera and all the rest combined.  (I'm an 
> Opera user).
>
>
>
>> Some governments exploit the same state of misinformation. The
>> Chinese, for example, limit the scope of content to which citizens
>> are exposed. But they are also on their way to shunning Microsoft
>> altogether.
>
> I guess you've had your nose buried in your Linux screens for months now, 
> and you missed the part where the Chinese President visited Bill Gates 
> before he visited the President of the US.  And you missed the part where 
> China is cracking down on piracy - which will only increase MS sales.  And 
> you missed the part where Lenovo - that hardware firm partly owned by the 
> Chinese government - agreed to purchase $1.2 billion of MS software.
>
> You miss just about everything that isn't negative about MS.  Such is the 
> life of a cola Linux "advocate".

Well done DFS. A resounding spanking for Roytoy. Mark must be black and
blue.

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