Asstroturfer DFS wrote on behalf of Micoshaft Corporation:
> 7 wrote:
>> DFS wrote:
>>
>>> http://schestowitz.com/roy/
>>>
>>>
>>> ... but tells everyone to boycott Novell because they made a
>>> business deal with Microsoft ("Do not Buy, Use, Host or Recommend
>>> Novell or SUSE products
>>> or services")? http://boycottnovell.com/about/
>>>
>>> Is he just that ignorant and hypocritical and greedy (willing to
>>> take a Windows job if the money is right)? Yes he is.
>>
>> Mr. Doofus,
>>
>> You don't need to pick on Roy, you can pick on me.
>
> Pointing out the extreme lying hypocrisy of the most obsessive spamming
> cola poster isn't picking on him.
>
>
>
>> Plenty of people including me are widummies to the core
>> with user skills and developer skills.
>> I even have hundreds of original micoshaft CDs to prove it.
>
> And the fact that you haven't gotten rid of/sold them, and continue to use
> Windows, shows all your blather about moving on to Linux is crocodile
> whines.
>
>
>> Yet in all these CDs there is nothing there that I own or belongs to
>> me despite having paid.
>
> You own the right to use them for information processing purposes, same as
> you always did.
>
>
>> I don't have any source code in them CDs
>> that I can modify for you to make a product.
>
> What and when was the last GPL product you modified for anyone and
> released the source for?
>
>
>
>> In the days they were bought, it was the only thing around.
>
> There were always non-MS options for everything except the OS.
>
>
>
>> Today its different.
>>
>> Today, we are floating in gigabytes of open source and access to
>> source code.
>
> Neat. Gigabytes of closed source apps and games are far superior - and
> there's no access to source code.
>
>
>
>> Its very rare I touch windopws PC.
>
> That I don't believe for a second. What do you do for a living? What
> software do you use at work?
>
>
>> And when I do,
>> I really feel uncomfortable. Its crap. It dodgy. I never know if
>> its infected. I can't believe how often the disks are whirring
>> and lights are blinking despite me doing nothing.
>
> Sounds like you need to upgrade that 1998 AMD Duron.
>
>
>
>> I can't believe its speed because the Linux PC sitting next to
>> it has 30+ windows and applications open and is faster.
>
> But look at those apps. Ugh.
>
> For instance, static screen capture utilities: Windows has SnagIt
> http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp (I use it often), MacOS has
> Snapz ProX http://ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/, and Linux has KDE
> KSnapshot or gnome-screenshot.
>
> You have to pay for SnagIt and Snapz Pro, but not for KSnapshot... and you
> definitely get what you pay for.
>
>
>
>> 20% of the entire windummy install base is infected with botnets
>> requiring billions of man hours to fix.
>
> blah blah blah
>
>
>
>> Windopws is finished.
>
> In three to six months, Vista - at prices ranging from $50 to $400 -
> gained more desktop users than Linux was able to scam in 10 years - at $0.
>
>
>
>> We are all just moving on.
>
> Speak for yourself and your band of merry men, 'cause the world is most
> definitely not moving on to Linux.
>
>
>
>> Anything in between is just transitory.
>
> Sure is a long, long, long, long transition. Geologic, almost. Can't see
> it happening.
Doofy, I have no idea what you are jibbering about.
Please translate into open source linguo,
or meaningful ordinary English, or Geek.
We are all moving on to better things and you can't bear that?!
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