"flyer" <flyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <460021e7$0$8398$ec3e2dad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ACDC@xxxxxxx says...
"flyer" <flyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <45ff5336$0$8387$ec3e2dad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> acdc@xxxxxxx says...
>>
>> "flyer" <flyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.2068dd60c74794269896dd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > MS discussions on how to SPIN LIES in order to occlude the truth
>> > about
>> > their substandard garbage is fascinating.
>> >
>> > If they had put these efforts into fixing Win, they would have been
>> > great, rather than despised by so many.
>> >
>> Well, there are billions on the earth and only a few millon at best to
>> do
>> the despising, so that makes Microsoft the favorite of about 99.9% of
>> that
>> total or at least they are despised by only 0.1%. George Bush won the
>> last
>> election with a far smaller percentage of the population in his camp.
>> That
>> illustrates the problem that the anti-MS folk have, i.e. they don't
>> see
>> reality and they don't focus on anything practical.
>
> Impractical?? Unrealistic?? You make the weakest arguments.
>
> WHAT is impractical or unrealistic about starting a race VASTLY LATE
> and
> then steadily surging ahead with a vastly better product to catch up.
>
As the famous economist said "In the long run, we are all dead." That is
pretty much the situation for desktop OS. Years of trying and very
little
incursion into the market, if any. Microsoft's business grows more each
year than the entire Linux installed base and so the gap, measured in
absolute terms is still increasing. Maybe by the year 3000 Linux will
catch
up, but it won't matter to me.
Sorry, Win CAN't scale. Google is beating MS to web apps. Linux is
steadily, VERY steadily, being adopted everywhere, including HEAVY Gov
zones. linux CAN scale hugely.
You are probably the wrong person to ask, but just what do you mean by that?
Can you define "scaling" and evaluate the need for it as well as the results
of having or not having it?
Like I said, Rome owned the world for a little while and then died.
That is a poor analogy for your case, I would say. The Roman Empire was
around for about 500 years, which is longer than I give even Microsoft or
even the desktop computer for that matter. It is certainly longer than
anyone gives me, so mox nix.
> Someone HAD to start first. To win however you can't have Linux running
> right up your pants with BETTER STUFF. MS will lose this race.
>
You think there is a race. I think the race is over and Microsoft won.
Linux was a no show.
Of COURSE there is a race, a REVIVED race, and one started LATE by Linux.
Dump Windows is becoming a mantra by those requiring decent computing.
They are hard to find and they are not spending any money. The combination
makes for long odds on that happening.
> Heh heh, displacing Win in sector after sector, shill boy, sounds
> nicely
> practical to me.
>
Which sector would you consider to be in the Linux win column? Is there
any
money in that sector?
RED HAT, DOT, ETC ETC and the list goes on and on.
Read Roy's posts re Linux adoption. Heavy Duty wave after wave of
adoption.
It's not something one can stop.
Well, keep wishing and hoping.
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