Re: [News] Sydney Morning Herald: End of the road [for Windows]

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> End of the road
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP. He has set
> | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at Microsoft dropping Windows
> | XP at the end of June. This will leave consumers with little choice but to
> | buy Vista or switch to Mac or Linux.
> `---- ^^^^^
>
> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>
> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies' and press
> that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>
> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over the state of
> unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it tries to pull
> FOSS over[/color]

How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?

Do get a clue.

Outdated Micoshfat Fraudster and Asstroturfer Hadron wrote on behalf of half
wits from micoshaft corporation:
[color=blue]
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>[color=green]
>> End of the road
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP. He has
>> | set up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at Microsoft
>> | dropping Windows XP at the end of June. This will leave consumers with
>> | little choice but to buy Vista or switch to Mac or Linux.
>> `---- ^^^^^
>>
>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>
>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies' and
>> press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>
>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over the
>> state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it tries to
>> pull FOSS over[/color]
>
> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?
>
> Do get a clue.[/color]


You are out dated clueless dude printing duff statements
from micoshaft marketing department.

Linux and open source is now far bigger than micoshaft.

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:31 +0200, Hadron wrote:
[color=blue]
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>[color=green]
>> End of the road
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP. He
>> has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at Microsoft
>> dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will leave consumers
>> with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to Mac or Linux. `----
>> ^^^^^
>>
>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>
>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies' and
>> press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>
>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over the
>> state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it tries to
>> pull FOSS over[/color]
>
> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?[/color]

How do Macs perfectly any more than Linux machines?

And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several times
it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat,
which, of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world, where
the Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.
[color=blue]
>
> Do get a clue.[/color]

Take your own advice.

--
Rick

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:46:17 -0500, Rick wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:31 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> End of the road
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP. He
>>> has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at Microsoft
>>> dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will leave consumers
>>> with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to Mac or Linux. `----
>>> ^^^^^
>>>
>>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>>
>>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies' and
>>> press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>>
>>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over the
>>> state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it tries to
>>> pull FOSS over[/color]
>>
>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?[/color]
>
> How do Macs perfectly any more than Linux machines?
>
> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several times
> it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat, which,
> of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world, where the
> Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.
>[/color]
Yes, Blammer has said that linux is *the* Number One Threat to M$. Maybe
Quack doesn't read the papers.

In 2001 Blammer promoted Linux from a threat to ‘the’ threat.

As far back as 2003 M$ had a slush fund to "stop Linux at any price".

In 2003 M$ CFO John Connors said "The general economic environment is
risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is
risk No. 2."

In 2008, Linux was Threat Number 2. The main threat to M$ windoze?
Oh, that is WEB BASED THREATS!!
Larry Bridewell, of AVG anti-virus:
“How many of you would think that if you went to the Bank of India site
you will get malicious software downloaded? How many would think that if
you Googled, Better Business Bureau, you would have 140 variants of
malware downloaded onto your machine and this from taking the top pick
from Google Adwords?”

M$, the company that made surfing dangerous.
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Do get a clue.[/color]
>
> Take your own advice.[/color]

Quack's an idiot, but I suspect you knew that.

--
This message was sent from a
computer which is guaranteed
100% free of the M$ Windoze virus.
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William Poaster <wp@leafnode.amd64.eu> writes:
[color=blue]
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:46:17 -0500, Rick wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:31 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> End of the road
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP. He
>>>> has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at Microsoft
>>>> dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will leave consumers
>>>> with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to Mac or Linux. `----
>>>> ^^^^^
>>>>
>>>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies' and
>>>> press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>>>
>>>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over the
>>>> state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it tries to
>>>> pull FOSS over
>>>
>>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?[/color]
>>
>> How do Macs perfectly any more than Linux machines?
>>
>> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
>> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several
>> times[/color][/color]

He said it once a few years ago. Even he must have been surprised how
COLA and its like managed to totally screw up Linux adoption by failing
to recognise and fix its shortcomings.
[color=blue][color=green]
>> it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat, which,
>> of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world, where the
>> Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.
>>[/color]
> Yes, Blammer has said that linux is *the* Number One Threat to M$. Maybe
> Quack doesn't read the papers.
>
> In 2001 Blammer promoted Linux from a threat to ‘the’ threat.[/color]

2001? He must be cringing now he realises he was wrong and Linux is
sitting at about 0.6% of the market.
[color=blue]
>
> As far back as 2003 M$ had a slush fund to "stop Linux at any price".[/color]

Proof please.
[color=blue]
>
> In 2003 M$ CFO John Connors said "The general economic environment is
> risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is
> risk No. 2."[/color]

2003?
[color=blue]
>
> In 2008, Linux was Threat Number 2. The main threat to M$ windoze?
> Oh, that is WEB BASED THREATS!!
> Larry Bridewell, of AVG anti-virus:
> “How many of you would think that if you went to the Bank of India site
> you will get malicious software downloaded? How many would think that if
> you Googled, Better Business Bureau, you would have 140 variants of
> malware downloaded onto your machine and this from taking the top pick
> from Google Adwords?�
>
> M$, the company that made surfing dangerous.
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Do get a clue.[/color]
>>
>> Take your own advice.[/color]
>
> Quack's an idiot, but I suspect you knew that.[/color]

You are a laughing stock Willy. You are all killfiles and rumour. You
provide nothing positive to Linux advocacy. Your hatred for MS makes you
look like the lowbrow wannabe you really are.

--
This year with the release of XP, they are actually behind. The end days
are near for the BIOS reading inferior OS. It is inevitable.
comp.os.linux.advocacy - where they put the lunacy in advocacy

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:47:33 +0200, Hadron wrote:
[color=blue]
> William Poaster <wp@leafnode.amd64.eu> writes:
>[color=green]
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:46:17 -0500, Rick wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:31 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> End of the road
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP.
>>>>> He has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at
>>>>> Microsoft dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will leave
>>>>> consumers with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to Mac or
>>>>> Linux. `----
>>>>> ^^^^^
>>>>>
>>>>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies'
>>>>> and press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>>>>
>>>>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over
>>>>> the state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it
>>>>> tries to pull FOSS over
>>>>
>>>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>>>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?
>>>
>>> How do Macs perfectly any more than Linux machines?
>>>
>>> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
>>> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several
>>> times[/color][/color]
>
> He said it once a few years ago. Even he must have been surprised how
> COLA and its like managed to totally screw up Linux adoption by failing
> to recognise and fix its shortcomings.[/color]

Google is your friend. Look it up.
[color=blue]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat,
>>> which, of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world, where
>>> the Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.
>>>[/color]
>> Yes, Blammer has said that linux is *the* Number One Threat to M$.
>> Maybe Quack doesn't read the papers.
>>
>> In 2001 Blammer promoted Linux from a threat to ‘the’ threat.[/color]
>
> 2001? He must be cringing now he realises he was wrong and Linux is
> sitting at about 0.6% of the market.[/color]

No, he's still running scared. That's why he's dropping prices in the
emerging markets.
[color=blue]
>
>[color=green]
>> As far back as 2003 M$ had a slush fund to "stop Linux at any price".[/color]
>
> Proof please.
>
>[color=green]
>> In 2003 M$ CFO John Connors said "The general economic environment is
>> risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is
>> risk No. 2."[/color]
>
> 2003?[/color]

So?
[color=blue]
>
>[color=green]
>> In 2008, Linux was Threat Number 2. The main threat to M$ windoze? Oh,
>> that is WEB BASED THREATS!!
>> Larry Bridewell, of AVG anti-virus:
>> “How many of you would think that if you went to the Bank of India site
>> you will get malicious software downloaded? How many would think that
>> if you Googled, Better Business Bureau, you would have 140 variants of
>> malware downloaded onto your machine and this from taking the top pick
>> from Google Adwords?�
>>
>> M$, the company that made surfing dangerous.
>>[color=darkred]
>>>> Do get a clue.
>>>
>>> Take your own advice.[/color]
>>
>> Quack's an idiot, but I suspect you knew that.[/color]
>
> You are a laughing stock Willy. You are all killfiles and rumour. You
> provide nothing positive to Linux advocacy. Your hatred for MS makes you
> look like the lowbrow wannabe you really are.[/color]

You're still a dishonest troll.

--
Rick

"Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:FMidnWO2DaZZyZbVnZ2dnUVZ_h3inZ2d@supernews.com...[color=blue]
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:47:33 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>[color=green]
>> William Poaster <wp@leafnode.amd64.eu> writes:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:46:17 -0500, Rick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:31 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> End of the road
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP.
>>>>>> He has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at
>>>>>> Microsoft dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will leave
>>>>>> consumers with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to Mac or
>>>>>> Linux. `----
>>>>>> ^^^^^
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies'
>>>>>> and press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over
>>>>>> the state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it
>>>>>> tries to pull FOSS over
>>>>>
>>>>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>>>>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?
>>>>
>>>> How do Macs perfectly any more than Linux machines?
>>>>
>>>> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
>>>> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several
>>>> times[/color]
>>
>> He said it once a few years ago. Even he must have been surprised how
>> COLA and its like managed to totally screw up Linux adoption by failing
>> to recognise and fix its shortcomings.[/color]
>
> Google is your friend. Look it up.[/color]


How exactly does one look-up something that never happened?


[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat,
>>>> which, of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world, where
>>>> the Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.
>>>>
>>> Yes, Blammer has said that linux is *the* Number One Threat to M$.
>>> Maybe Quack doesn't read the papers.
>>>
>>> In 2001 Blammer promoted Linux from a threat to 'the' threat.[/color]
>>
>> 2001? He must be cringing now he realises he was wrong and Linux is
>> sitting at about 0.6% of the market.[/color]
>
> No, he's still running scared. That's why he's dropping prices in the
> emerging markets.[/color]

Hardly running scared. Microsoft is selling more software, making more
revenue and earning more Billion$$$ in profit than ever before. It's
probably too difficult for kids who live in moms basement to understand but
this is actually a business decision. Windows is a product that has zero
incremental cost (it's essentually "free" to create new Windows licenses).
Since licenses are effectively free to generate, Microsoft is better off
selling the product for $5 or $10 a copy than not selling it at all to
regions that can't afford the full price. And if you look at the price of
Vista in the EU you'll see that they are charging a HIGHER price than in
the US.

What a concept... pricing a product differently for different regions of
the world. Find someone who took an economics class and have them explain
it to you.


[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> As far back as 2003 M$ had a slush fund to "stop Linux at any price".[/color]
>>
>> Proof please.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> In 2003 M$ CFO John Connors said "The general economic environment is
>>> risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is
>>> risk No. 2."[/color]
>>
>> 2003?[/color]
>
> So?[/color]

5+ year old news.

[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> In 2008, Linux was Threat Number 2. The main threat to M$ windoze? Oh,
>>> that is WEB BASED THREATS!!
>>> Larry Bridewell, of AVG anti-virus:
>>> "How many of you would think that if you went to the Bank of India site
>>> you will get malicious software downloaded? How many would think that
>>> if you Googled, Better Business Bureau, you would have 140 variants of
>>> malware downloaded onto your machine and this from taking the top pick
>>> from Google Adwords?"
>>>
>>> M$, the company that made surfing dangerous.
>>>
>>>>> Do get a clue.
>>>>
>>>> Take your own advice.
>>>
>>> Quack's an idiot, but I suspect you knew that.[/color]
>>
>> You are a laughing stock Willy. You are all killfiles and rumour. You
>> provide nothing positive to Linux advocacy. Your hatred for MS makes you
>> look like the lowbrow wannabe you really are.[/color]
>
> You're still a dishonest troll.
>
> --
> Rick[/color]


** Posted from [url]http://www.teranews.com[/url] **

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:35:48 -0500, Rick wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:47:33 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>[color=green]
>> William Poaster <wp@leafnode.amd64.eu> writes:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:46:17 -0500, Rick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:31 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> End of the road
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP.
>>>>>> He has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at
>>>>>> Microsoft dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will leave
>>>>>> consumers with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to Mac or
>>>>>> Linux. `----
>>>>>> ^^^^^
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies'
>>>>>> and press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over
>>>>>> the state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it
>>>>>> tries to pull FOSS over
>>>>>
>>>>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>>>>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?
>>>>
>>>> How do Macs perfectly any more than Linux machines?
>>>>
>>>> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
>>>> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several
>>>> times[/color]
>>
>> He said it once a few years ago. Even he must have been surprised how
>> COLA and its like managed to totally screw up Linux adoption by failing
>> to recognise and fix its shortcomings.[/color]
>
> Google is your friend. Look it up.
>
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat,
>>>> which, of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world, where
>>>> the Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.
>>>>
>>> Yes, Blammer has said that linux is *the* Number One Threat to M$.
>>> Maybe Quack doesn't read the papers.
>>>
>>> In 2001 Blammer promoted Linux from a threat to ‘the’ threat.[/color]
>>
>> 2001? He must be cringing now he realises he was wrong and Linux is
>> sitting at about 0.6% of the market.[/color]
>
> No, he's still running scared. That's why he's dropping prices in the
> emerging markets.
>
>[color=green]
>>[color=darkred]
>>> As far back as 2003 M$ had a slush fund to "stop Linux at any price".[/color]
>>
>> Proof please.
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> In 2003 M$ CFO John Connors said "The general economic environment is
>>> risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is
>>> risk No. 2."[/color]
>>
>> 2003?[/color]
>
> So?
>
>[color=green]
>>[color=darkred]
>>> In 2008, Linux was Threat Number 2. The main threat to M$ windoze? Oh,
>>> that is WEB BASED THREATS!!
>>> Larry Bridewell, of AVG anti-virus:
>>> “How many of you would think that if you went to the Bank of India
>>> site you will get malicious software downloaded? How many would think
>>> that if you Googled, Better Business Bureau, you would have 140
>>> variants of malware downloaded onto your machine and this from taking
>>> the top pick from Google Adwords?”
>>>
>>> M$, the company that made surfing dangerous.
>>>
>>>>> Do get a clue.
>>>>
>>>> Take your own advice.
>>>
>>> Quack's an idiot, but I suspect you knew that.[/color]
>>
>> You are a laughing stock Willy. You are all killfiles and rumour. You
>> provide nothing positive to Linux advocacy. Your hatred for MS makes you
>> look like the lowbrow wannabe you really are.[/color]
>
> You're still a dishonest troll.[/color]

Quack's the laughing stock, he doesn't do *any* linux advocacy as he's
too busy defending M$.
As for lowbrow, he must have looked in the mirror again. It's a wonder it
hasn't cracked by mow.

Some examples of Quack's "Linux advocacy":
<quote>
Linux as a desktop OS is pretty much doomed it would appear.
Too little too late.
<unquote>
Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com>
Message-ID: <fnd3jj$or8$2@registered.motzarella.org>
comp.os.linux.advocacy
Fri, 25 Jan 2008

<quote>
Anyone who says Open Office is as
good as MS Office is living in denial.
<unquote>
From: Hadron Quark <hadronqu...@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <87wsxqrjmz.fsf@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: what if Microsoft owned Nintendo ..
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007

<quote>
So you think it's tougher for Free (as in beer) SW to replace MS SW? It
doesn't replace the MS stuff generally because the "free" application SW
is piss poor in relation to the purchased versions. The obvious
exceptions are already well documented here.
LOL. You guys just get nuttier by the day.
<unquote>
From: Hadron <hadronqu...@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: [News] Analysts unhappy with Windows Vista
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:56:23 +0100
Message-ID: <osbn15-4ce.ln1@news.individual.net>


And here we have what others have said about Quack:

<quote>
Hadron,
You are so full of **** I am amazed I can't smell you.
You need to be on arrogant.assholes, not here.
<unquote>
Bill (sick of Hadron) Baka

Message-ID: <cZ2Aj.8886$tW.8153@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>
From: Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Dual Boot
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008

<quote>
You're still an arrogant prick full of himself and your ****ty attitude
does far more harm than good.
<unquote>
Meat Plow in reply to Quack
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Install to USB Drive
Message-ID: <1k4eg4.693.17.1@news.alt.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008

<quote>
What you have to remember is that **** floats.
Hadron always resurfaces.
<unquote>
From: caver1 <caver1@inthemud>
Message-ID: <47dfac8b$0$22866$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 200

<quote>
Not what he said, but we all know that your reading skills suck arse...
You gave no advice at all. *Just more grandstanding and whinnying...
<unquote>
From: Joe <joe@hits-buffalo.no.spam.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Message-ID: <S5ydnQgj9s_02-ranZ2dnUVZ_obinZ2d@giganews.com>
Subject: Re: Server or workstation?
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007

<quote>
You sound like a MS fanboy
<unquote>
From: caver1
Date: Monday 29 Oct 2007 4:45:17 pm
Groups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu

<quote>
Creative cutting and pasting, though...

Quack: > I think that will do for now.

Sure will. *You have already proved what a liar and an idiot you are...
<unquote>
From: Joe <joe@hits-buffalo.no.spam.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Another Successful Linux Install
Message-ID: <S5ydnRAj9s8t3eranZ2dnUVZ_obinZ2d@giganews.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007

<quote>
There is a certain amount of hostility towards Linux in most of your
posts. Your statement above is one prime example. Google can reveal plenty
others. Even a blind person reading this newsgroup could pretty quickly
figure out that you do appear to favor MS...hence why question why do you
bother with linux?
<unquote>
From: Stephan Rose <nospam@spammer.com>
Message-ID: <DoCdnQ1r36i7Bx_anZ2dnUVZ8uCdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: OSX 7% Linux .63% -- Just as predicted --
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:31:18 -0600

There are plenty more.

You can now expect more bluster & crap from Quack, I expect.

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On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:00:14 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
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> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:FMidnWO2DaZZyZbVnZ2dnUVZ_h3inZ2d@supernews.com...[color=green]
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:47:33 +0200, Hadron wrote:
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>>> William Poaster <wp@leafnode.amd64.eu> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:46:17 -0500, Rick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:31 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> End of the road
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP.
>>>>>>> He has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at
>>>>>>> Microsoft dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will
>>>>>>> leave consumers with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to
>>>>>>> Mac or Linux. `----
>>>>>>> ^^^^^
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake
>>>>>>> 'studies' and press that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over
>>>>>>> the state of unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it
>>>>>>> tries to pull FOSS over
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x
>>>>>> the install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?
>>>>>
>>>>> How do Macs perfectly any more than Linux machines?
>>>>>
>>>>> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
>>>>> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several
>>>>> times
>>>
>>> He said it once a few years ago. Even he must have been surprised how
>>> COLA and its like managed to totally screw up Linux adoption by
>>> failing to recognise and fix its shortcomings.[/color]
>>
>> Google is your friend. Look it up.[/color]
>
>
> How exactly does one look-up something that never happened?[/color]

.... you can't use a search engine?
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>
>
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>>>>> it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat,
>>>>> which, of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world,
>>>>> where the Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, Blammer has said that linux is *the* Number One Threat to M$.
>>>> Maybe Quack doesn't read the papers.
>>>>
>>>> In 2001 Blammer promoted Linux from a threat to 'the' threat.
>>>
>>> 2001? He must be cringing now he realises he was wrong and Linux is
>>> sitting at about 0.6% of the market.[/color]
>>
>> No, he's still running scared. That's why he's dropping prices in the
>> emerging markets.[/color]
>
> Hardly running scared.[/color]

Running scared.
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> Microsoft is selling more software, making more
> revenue and earning more Billion$$$ in profit than ever before. It's[/color]

Yeah.. that's why it is cutting prices in the emerging markets.
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> probably too difficult for kids who live in moms basement to understand
> but this is actually a business decision.[/color]

.... like IBM, Novel, Sun, ...
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> Windows is a product that has
> zero incremental cost (it's essentually "free" to create new Windows
> licenses). Since licenses are effectively free to generate, Microsoft is
> better off selling the product for $5 or $10 a copy than not selling it
> at all to regions that can't afford the full price. And if you look at
> the price of Vista in the EU you'll see that they are charging a HIGHER
> price than in the US.[/color]

,,, the effects of its monopoly power. Artificially high prices.
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>
> What a concept... pricing a product differently for different regions of
> the world. Find someone who took an economics class and have them
> explain it to you.[/color]

You do the same.
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>
>
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>>>> As far back as 2003 M$ had a slush fund to "stop Linux at any price".
>>>
>>> Proof please.
>>>
>>>
>>>> In 2003 M$ CFO John Connors said "The general economic environment
>>>> is risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial
>>>> software is risk No. 2."
>>>
>>> 2003?[/color]
>>
>> So?[/color]
>
> 5+ year old news.[/color]

Sill true today.
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>
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>>>> In 2008, Linux was Threat Number 2. The main threat to M$ windoze?
>>>> Oh, that is WEB BASED THREATS!!
>>>> Larry Bridewell, of AVG anti-virus:
>>>> "How many of you would think that if you went to the Bank of India
>>>> site you will get malicious software downloaded? How many would think
>>>> that if you Googled, Better Business Bureau, you would have 140
>>>> variants of malware downloaded onto your machine and this from taking
>>>> the top pick from Google Adwords?"
>>>>
>>>> M$, the company that made surfing dangerous.
>>>>
>>>>>> Do get a clue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Take your own advice.
>>>>
>>>> Quack's an idiot, but I suspect you knew that.
>>>
>>> You are a laughing stock Willy. You are all killfiles and rumour. You
>>> provide nothing positive to Linux advocacy. Your hatred for MS makes
>>> you look like the lowbrow wannabe you really are.[/color]
>>
>> You're still a dishonest troll.
>>
>> --
>> Rick[/color]
>
>
> ** Posted from [url]http://www.teranews.com[/url] **[/color]


You're still a dishonest troll that can't configure a news reader.


--
Rick

Hadron wrote:[color=blue]
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
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>> End of the road
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows XP. He has set
>> | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at Microsoft dropping Windows
>> | XP at the end of June. This will leave consumers with little choice but to
>> | buy Vista or switch to Mac or Linux.
>> `---- ^^^^^
>>
>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>
>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies' and press
>> that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>
>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over the state of
>> unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it tries to pull
>> FOSS over[/color]
>
> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?[/color]


Much closer to 5x. And since when did Mac run Windows apps perfectly?

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>
> Do get a clue.[/color]

Matt <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> writes:
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> Hadron wrote:[color=green]
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> writes:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> End of the road
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Galen Gruman, a technology journalist, wants to save Windows
>>> XP. He has set | up a "Save XP" petition (SaveXP.com) in protest at
>>> Microsoft dropping Windows | XP at the end of June. This will
>>> leave consumers with little choice but to | buy Vista or switch to
>>> Mac or Linux. `---- ^^^^^
>>>
>>> [url]http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives/017960.html[/url]
>>>
>>> Microsoft pays a lot of its shills at the moment for fake 'studies' and press
>>> that cites it (Forrester, Jupiter, Gartner).
>>>
>>> The brainwash machine is active as Microsoft goes hysterical over the state of
>>> unmaintainable Windows (Linux is the #1 threat, so it tries to pull
>>> FOSS over[/color]
>>
>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?[/color]
>
>
> Much closer to 5x. And since when did Mac run Windows apps perfectly?[/color]

Look into it.

Rick wrote:
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> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several times
> it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that threat,
> which, of course, has not happened anywhere but the third world, where
> the Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.[/color]

[url]http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/18/microsoft-flagship-flounders[/url]
((((([color=blue]
> The council nearly opted for open source in 2004 because it was the the cheapest long-term option, but Microsoft cut a last minute deal to make its software more attractive.[/color]
)))))

Matt <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> writes:
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> Rick wrote:
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>> And check the news over the past few years. Balmer keeps telling the
>> press, partners and the SEC that Linux is a growing threat. Several
>> times it has warned they may have to lower prices because of that
>> threat, which, of course, has not happened anywhere but the third
>> world, where the Microsoft monopoly power is not entrenched.[/color]
>
> [url]http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/18/microsoft-flagship-flounders[/url]
> ((((([color=green]
>> The council nearly opted for open source in 2004 because it was the the cheapest long-term option, but Microsoft cut a last minute deal to make its software more attractive.[/color]
> )))))[/color]


You need to read "Secrets and Lies" by Shneier. In it Balmer is quoted
as saying pretty much something along the lines of "sod, it, yeah we
know they're going to pirate 10 copies for every legit one, but better
to be pirated than not used at all". And he has a point.

>Quack puked:[color=blue][color=green]
>>
>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?[/color][/color]

How on earth can it be that ****head like you hasn't had the sh*t
beaten out of you, Quack?

To answer your question, fsckwit, Macs will always be a niche due to
their price structure. Macs do not have the open-source advantage
that *really* threatens Micro$oft.

"How on earth" indeed, like any of this is terribly difficult to
figure out. Asshole.

chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> writes:
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>>Quack puked:[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> How on earth could Linux be #1 threat when Macs have at least 10x the
>>> install base AND can run Windows apps perfectly?[/color][/color]
>
> How on earth can it be that ****head like you hasn't had the sh*t
> beaten out of you, Quack?
>
> To answer your question, fsckwit, Macs will always be a niche due to
> their price structure. Macs do not have the open-source advantage
> that *really* threatens Micro$oft.
>
> "How on earth" indeed, like any of this is terribly difficult to
> figure out. Asshole.
>[/color]

It seems to be difficult enough looking at the take up figures. And
realising that a lot of good OSS runs on a Mac too.

But hey! Why let facts get in the way of another of your vitriolic,
Neanderthal rants!