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Linux Approaching Tipping Point
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| If I were Microsoft, I’d be worried. And I drank the Redmond Kool-Aid many
| years ago when Steve Balmer gave me a free copy of all of Microsoft’s
| business-related software in order to help my fledgling book publishing
| company. In return, I helpd convert 2 companies into Microsoft shops. I
| still love Microsoft, but with an almost or actual depression staring the
| world in the eyes, I’m not sure I can afford their stuff any longer.
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http://hennessysview.com/2008/12/21/linux-approaching-tipping-point/
Even Microsoft employees are moving to GNU/Linux (examples below).
Related:
When did I become such a tool?
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| Six years ago I began working for Microsoft.
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| The ways I thought about my time changed. How I thought about my
| career changed. How I thought about my place in the world changed.
|
| [...]
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| Moving my family computer from Windows XP to some form of Linux. A
| symbolic gesture more than anything - but one that will force me to do
| those things I so sorely miss.
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http://makingtheswitch.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/when-did-i-become-such-a-tool/
Former Microsoft Insider Speaks Out
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| Internet Explorer was an attempt to counter a "threat" against the
| Windows platform. During the interview, he talked about the attack
| on Netscape. He said, "Steve Ballmer was hammering on BillG about
| how the Internet could make Windows irrelevant. BillG wasn't getting
| it; he was focused on the Windows apps. Then, BillG woke up and saw
| Java running on Netscape, which, of course, ran on many platforms,
| including our arch-enemy at that time, OS/2." It started out as an
| HTML rendering application, but Internet Explorer grew larger with
| OLE 2.0, which became a great security concern as this former
| insider, along with other developers, had plenty of experience
| fighting viruses, and they saw it as another opening for virus
| writers, especially since for all intents and purposes from
| Windows 95 on, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer were one
| and the same.
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| During the later part of the 1990's, Sum Yung Gai left Microsoft
| to finish his degree. When asked how they felt about his departure,
| he said, "I went back to finish my college education, and none of us
| ever suspected I'd get into this GNU thing or Free Software.
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http://www.thenixedreport.com/articles/tholbrook2/exmicrosofty.html
My $300 UPNP Media Server and NAS (On Ubuntu)
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| First, I'll mention that there are indeed off-the-shelf NAS solutions that do
| this, such as the DNS-323. I've had pretty bad experience with these, and in
| my case i'm actually replacing my DNS-323 becuase I was just tired of the
| constant lock-ups/failures/etc.
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http://www.keirgordon.com/2007/06/my-300-upnp-media-server-and-nas-on.html
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