In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Capt. Morgan
<rumboy@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:52:15 -0400
<46bb4834$0$11761$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2591994.z46s8p6uOa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
>> | important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing,
>> said
>> | the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
>
>
> So they will use Windows XP instead. Where's linux?
Linux? Why would anyone want to use Linux? It's standard, it's
easy to install, it's free. No one would want to use anything
that's standard, easy to install, and free; get serious!
Use old, pirated XP copies instead. Much simpler, from
somebody's point of view, apparently.
</sarcasm>
>
> -- "ALL of the 12,000 CRITICAL SYSTEMS will run the 6-year-old Windows
> XP..."
>
> 12,000 critical systems and each and every one of them will run a 6-year-old
> version of Windows. Not a single one will run a new version of linux.
>
> Hardly sounds like linux advocacy to me. If anything it reflects what the
> public thinks of linux... they would rather use a version of Windows from
> 2002 then a modern linux.
>
--
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- allegedly said by Bill Gates, 1981, but somebody had to make this up!
--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
|
|
