____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 05 July 2007 15:41 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:54:51 +0100
> <2184551.32gOGdbAFV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 02 July 2007 20:16 : \____
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:53:40 +0100
>>> <1255086.aymY2JhRWe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> ____/ Oldtech on Sunday 01 July 2007 23:44 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Check the current stats for spam generation, and, yes, all the domains
>>>>> are Microsoft pwned:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_get_ip
>>>>
>>>> Bear in mind that many botnet are doing tasks on HTTP as well. In fact, I
>>>> was a victim of DDOS attacks in the past and these influence Web stats in
>>>> Windows/IE's way. It's one among the /many/ reasons Web stats are not
>>>> reliable (too many bots and automated requests/scans).
>>>>
>>>> Also see:
>>>>
>>>> Deconstructing a 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Trojan
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25954&a=194164&po=4,00.asp
>>>>
>>>> Damn. Microsoft has a monopoly. Mac, BSD, Solaris and Linux only account
>>>> for 0.05%.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I sure hope that's not where the Wintrools are getting
>>> their Linux market figures from! :-)
>>
>> Spotted half an hour ago:
>>
>>
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1712http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fedora_7_rivals_ubuntus_ease_of_use
>>
>> "Top 3 Operating Systems Used to Access the Site: Windows, 73.71%; Linux,
>> 15.34%; Mac, 10.18%."
>>
>> it's not a Linux site at all. It gets a lot of traffic.
>>
>
> It's an open source site and therefore slightly biased --
> but 15% isn't bad, certainly.
>
> Poking around a bit:
>
> http://sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1699
>
> is a little disturbing, not because he posted it, but
> because Microsoft's OOXML is apparently subverting
> the standards process by using the one and only CSS
> implementation as a basis for behavior.
>
> Compared to that, there are several implementations for
> interpreting, say, SVG -- GIMP in particular can load
> and scale any SVG file, whereas svgtopam needs to
> flesh out its capabilities a little more, and most
> will know of Mozilla Firefox's implementation. There's
> also a Squiggles browser, part of the Batik suite, in
> the Java world (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/).
Microsoft is also subverting MathML in Office 2007, no matter if you save as
Uh-Oh-XML (docx) or DOC. It has been sort of banned from major journals as a
result, but for how long? De facto standards are a scary monster.
By the way, the blog is not about open source, but about standards, which are
usually open in nature.
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