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M$ to micro-manage your computer
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Doctor V:
OK guys here's the plan!
We make a new Linux distribution with a GUI that looks exactly like Windows XP. The workings should also be close enough to that of windows so that the typical user cannot tell the difference. It would need a much better version of wine, one that could run almost all windows applications. It would also have to come with linux versions of the applications that come with windoze like notepad and solitare... Then put is on the market for free.
But to further disrupt Bill Gates's evil plot, we would make a rapidly-spreading windoze virus that, whenever a user connects to the internet, their computer starts/continues downloading the new Linux OS. After the download is complete, it saves a copy of all the users applications on a partition, and installs the new OS. The user will then have been liberated from the sinister empire that is Microsoft without even knowing it.
Can always dream right,
V
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that wont work. If people dont know that they switched to Linux, then they will think that microsoft just made an extremely stable OS and then they will love Microsoft even more.
Doctor V:
It would free developers by giving them a chance to develope applications for non-M$ that would work for a majority of users. After which, people would just stop making windoze applications cause of how lame, unstable, and difficult to build they are. It would disrupt M$'s spyware network. Perhaps it could come with Mozilla, taking away M$'s grip on the internet by giving users a pre-installed alternative. The same with Window$ Media Player. Real could come with the new OS. After M$ releases a new windoze version, the dummys who are quickest to downgrade to it would imediately be displeased with its performance, and switch back to XP only to find that they weren't using XP all along, afterwhich they would seek linux again. It would make it so all the applications that M$ schemed to make not run it windows due to fear of competition work again. It would eliminate the ability of M$ to give benefits to its minions..er preferred partners by controlling which companys know what about the internal workings of winblows.
It could never be done, but *if* it did, it *would* work.
V
lazygamer:
MUHAHAHA! Sounds great. Your all forgeting one thing. First off you'd need to get some of those hacker dudes who could rape US government "techies" in a freestyle h4x0r battle to help program it. ;)
Ok easy enough, the real problem is lawsuits from MS.
willysnout:
quote:Originally posted by Doctor V:
OK guys here's the plan!
We make a new Linux distribution with a GUI that looks exactly like Windows XP. The workings should also be close enough to that of windows so that the typical user cannot tell the difference. It would need a much better version of wine, one that could run almost all windows applications. It would also have to come with linux versions of the applications that come with windoze like notepad and solitare... Then put is on the market for free.
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Now there's a great idea. Add a series of Linux for Dummies books that help users figure it out. Then from there -- a stable base -- you introduce the new stuff. And do the whole thing in an approachable fashion, i.e., lose the unapproachable geek/be afraid of me attitude. The world would switch very fast.
choasforages:
ummm, if you think that we are unapproachable/*we are not*/ try talking to the guys behind *BSD.
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