____/ Linonut on Friday 02 November 2007 15:08 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, [H]omer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> I also have no interest in GNU/Linux becoming the "dominant" OS. Unlike
>> Microsoft, I am not interested in "taking over the world", and therefore
>> I really don't care what OS other people use, provided their activities
>> do not /interfere/ with mine. However, both Microsoft and their products
>> /do/ in fact cause severe problems for non-Windows users, such as:
>>
>> . Bot-nets of zombie Windows machines spewing spam and DDoS attacks
>> . Broken standards in networking, the Web, documents, and media
>> . Windows-only DRM systems
>> . Windows-only drivers
>> . Windows-only hardware (Win-modems, BIOSes, DirectX extensions, etc.)
>> . Windows-only software and services
>> . Patents held by mainly proprietary software vendors
>> . Sabotage of FOSS companies and projects, and their activities
>> . Anti-Linux FUD and lies spread by Microsoft and their proxies
>> . Deceit, corruption and bribery by Microsoft, to ensure "dominance"
>> . Microsoft's perversion of the standards process and related bodies
>> . Microsoft's perversion of public utilities with proprietary standards
>> . Coercive OEM deals designed to inhibit GNU/Linux adoption
>> . Government "lobbying" to implement Microsoft's agenda as law
>>
>> So I do not think it has ever really been a case of wanting GNU/Linux to
>> "dominate", but rather a question of simply getting rid of the threat to
>> society posed by Microsoft. Where Windows users would go in the event of
>> such a happy outcome, I really don't care.
>>
>> The fact is, that Microsoft and its proxies are violent, aggressive, and
>> grossly reprehensible goons with a criminal mentality, who have embarked
>> on a quest to essentially "take over", (pretty much everything they can
>> get their grubby hands on), all in the name of greed. They simply do not
>> care how contemptuous their behaviour is, as long as it results in great
>> big wads of cash - that's all that matters to them.
>
> Microsoft is a cancer!
Consider Robert X cringely's advice.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2007/10/microsoft_the_f.html
Microsoft needs to be eliminated, he'd say. No criminal organisation has ever
offered any good to humanity. And yes, I put my
name/credibility/reputation/whatever the trolls will want to laugh at when I
call them "criminals" because I know quite a lot about the Microsoft that
people do not just read about in the daily papers.
Microsoft was created with, sheltered by, thrived in, and continues to find
some prosperity in crime. Business crimes.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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