__/ [ BearItAll ] on Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:23 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft Start to Crack
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | This week Microsoft provided me with yet another reason to hate them....
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | I'm one former MS customer who will not be going back to MS any
>> | time soon. This legal action only makes me more determined never
>> | to give MS a cent of my hard earned cash. MS need to listen to
>> | people like me. I'm fed up with their cr*p and threatening me
>> | with legal action is not going to endear them to me! They need
>> | to put their lawyers back into their box and start producing
>> | better software!
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=437
>>
>
> Thinks: I wonder why blogs never have hit counters? Maybe it is because
> after sprouting a long winded bit of crap the blogger would find it very
> disheartening to see a hit counter with less than '5' in it, and two of
> those were himself to read it after he posted it. (one can never see
> mistakes until after the Post button has been pressed, that is the first
> rule of bloggery).
>
> But still, this chap did sort of sum it up.
>
> Humans come from monkeys, tell a monkey what to do and it does one of two
> things, it either looks at you curiously whilst ignoring what you actually
> said, or it shows it's bum to you. We haven't changed much, a couple of
> thousand years isn't enough to clear out millions of years of evolution. It
> is also true that any habits that we have must have come from the survival
> instinct. Therefore, showing your bum to enemies must have a possitive
> effect on your ability to survive, or it simply wouldn't have lasted.
>
> MS spit and snarl at computer users, threatening the fake Patents. In
> return the computer users perform one of the two actions. But of cause the
> actions have developed a little. So the users either ignore MS or they show
> MS their arse and add the words 'Kiss That'.
>
> MS are likely to lose just as many users through this threatening attitude
> as they do through releasing absolute crap such as Vista. So all of this
> patent stuff is actually to the benefit of Linux.
>
>
> I have to go now, we have this years budget meeting starting soon. I have
> loosened my belt ready for when they tell me I can't have enough for a Sun
> Fire X4500. According to evolution this will have a possitive effect in a
> budget meeting.
Yes, I very much agree and some of the previous posts (e.g. the article about
a CIO survey and a poll) indicate that /MORE/ people will move to Linux as a
consueqnce. Microsoft's envy has just brought appeal to Linux. Moreover,
some people will do this _for spite_.
Yesterday in the news:
PC resellers strike against Microsoft in India
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| Stop harassment over piracy or we move to Linux...
|
| [...]
|
| "We have been approached by dealers in other states who are also
| being harassed by Microsoft," Randeri said. "If Microsoft does
| not cooperate, we will tell our dealers to migrate to Linux."
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-business/supplier-relations/news/index.cfm?newsid=3114
I wonder how the chair supplies at Redmond are doing...
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~~ Best regards
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