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Re: [News] Microsoft's Attack on GNU/Linux Drive Microsoft Developers/Customers Away

* SomeBloke peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Rick wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:14:18 +0100, SomeBloke wrote:
>>> Rick wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:21:40 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Note:  "his work environment is now 100% Microsoft-free.....The switch
>>>>> has cost Gunderloy money."
>>>>> 
>>>>> And that's something very few Linux "advocates" - especially the top
>>>>> tier idiots and hypocrites like Linonut and Rex Ballard and 7 and Mark
>>>>> Kent and HPT and spike1 and (p)Rick and Shearman and NoNad and Rasker
>>>>> - are willing to endure.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup... just keep spewing your lies, Dumb Fucking Shit.
>>>> 
>>> This is what was actually written in the article.
>>> 
>>> <quote>
>>> The switch has cost Gunderloy money. "I ended up cutting my hourly rate
>>> for development. I could command a higher rate [for Microsoft-related
>>> development], as someone who'd worked with Microsoft for as long as I
>>> had. The levels of compensation in the Rails development community will
>>> not reach the highest levels in Microsoft community."
>>> 
>>> Still, he's not complaining, and he believes the tradeoff is more than
>>> worth it. By bucking Microsoft for open source, says Gunderloy, "I'm no
>>> longer contributing to the eventual death of programming." </quote>
>>> 
>>> Little Stewie, communicating out of his rectum again. Sad, very sad.
>> 
>> "The switchhas cost Gunderloy money."
>> I have no doubt the above is true. Switching to OSS, even without paying
>> anyting for the software, can cost money i many ways.
>> 
>> This is his lie:
>> "And that's something very few Linux "advocates"  - especially the top
>> tier idiots and hypocrites like ...  and (p)Rick ...  are willing to
>> endure.
>
> It reads as if Gunderloy is enjoying programming again!! Who cares what
> Stewie vomits forth?

You can't win with DFS -- you're a hypocrite if you make some of your
money with work involving Windows, and you're an idiot headed to the
poor house working on crap apps if you don't.

The fact is, he's a sour, angry man, and I think Linux is the least of
his problems.

-- 
<gorgo> what do you get when someone cracks your debian machine ?
<gorgo> mashed potato...

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