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If Linux doesn't get its desktop act together...

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beltorak0:
thank you BadKarma; I was about to dissolve into a rant.  XP User posts crap 90% of the time, but i STRONGLY dissagree with the censorship bit.  If you want to censor content on the internet, x-11, sign up for the TCPA herd.

 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
 http://www.anti-dmca.org/DRM-OS.html

-t.

voidmain:
Then just exactly what *is* the purpose of a moderator if not to censor?  Seems odd they would include such a feature in the software.

rtgwbmsr:
The world hates Palladium:
Out of 620 Polled (All knew what Palladium is): 57% thinks that Palladium is "a Microsoft monopoly-extension attempt" While only 3% thought that Palladium is "a way to protect sensitive information & stop viruses".

Eat shit and die M$

BTW: XP Looser: Your nick makes no sense. You claim to be XP User #5,225,982,375. Nowhere near 5 trillion copies of XP will ever be sold. So fuck you, and your anti-MS BS. Would you pay for $1000 for an M$ OS? That's what would happen if M$ had no competition.

voidmain:
Uh, that would be 5 billion.     But considering there was only claims of 7 million copies sold in November, I think that 5 billion is an overstatement to say the least.  Especially since there are only 6 billion people on this earth.

[ August 14, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

beltorak0:
A moderator should censor abusive content, not alternate opinions... It's no good blaming the programmer for making a product that could be used to censor an opinion.... Besides, that post did have something to say.  Not having the post at hand makes for a difficult argument; so i guess i'll just have to make it up as i go along.

If 85% of the costumers out there use windoze on the desktop, and microsoft breaks a standard needed for purchaes, do you expect the business to just ignore 85% of the market?  The best-of-both-worlds solution (having a windoz server front end for compatiblity and a *nix server for the real work) will fail when microsoft decides to become backward incompatible (again) with anything else but its next os.  All microsoft has to do is copyright it's next file system + encryption model, and make software that doesn't share files or data.  Any attempt at curcumvention will be prosecuted under the DMCA.

so; if Linux doesn't get it's desktop act together, microsoft will crush Linux on the server end....

but the good news is that micro$soft may have dropped the ball;
<--- snip http://www.iht.com/articles/67401.html ---->

"I heard from a lot of state, municipal and federal government agencies as well as schools," [Didio] said. "They were coming back to Microsoft and saying: 'Can you spell Linux? We can't afford your software.'"
<---- snip snip ---->

-t.

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