__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 26 January 2007 12:33 \__
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> Handover Phist <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On 2007-01-25, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Windows Vista's 'Mac'-Ness Might Open Door for Linux Takeover
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The timing couldn't be better, but there are bound to be numerous
>>>| shake-outs and a few collapses. And Microsoft looks vulnerable, too.
>>>|
>>>| The most important event is the formation of the Linux Foundation.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246401,00.html
>>
>> I've been saying this for weeks. Now Fox news is saying it? Maybe I was
>> wrong... ;)
>>
>
> If you read the article carefully, there are a series of swipes at
> linux, and something at apple, too:
>
> 1) too many distros
> 2) too left-brain or right brain or something like that
> 3) office packages not good enough
> 4) hp, ibm & intel have their own agenda
> 5) too many distros
> 6) mac not popular, nothing to do with price
> 7) list of apps which must be native, otherwise the sky will fall in
>
> ...and so on.
>
> It's a very mass-market, very biassed article, designed to annoy pretty
> much everyone.
Yes, because it's Dvorak. His trolling his deliberate and he even takes pride
in it [1]. At first he said this to Dave Winer discreetly, but recently he
opened up about it. I removed his name from the headline for that reason.
[1] Video: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8848
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