Posted on 04/05/2006 8:39:22 AM PDT by luthers_inkwell
At http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/florian-mueller-blog/ballmer-linux/ we're reminded that Microsoft wants Linux dead. Ballmer is once again making noise about patents.
Unfortunately, Microsoft likely does have patents it could use against Linux. IBM can probably be replied upon to fight back on the side of Linux with its own patents - supposedly they've called Microsoft patent bluffs in the past just by pointing out that they also have stacks of patents and idle lawyers ready to look for violations by Windows code. However, Microsoft might now be willing to risk the battle.
Microsoft is not in a happy place right now. Vista is delayed, and both Apple and Linux are gnawing at its toes. The increasing interest in virtualization and particularly in package/OS bundling like VMware Player is a bumpy road for Microsoft because of OS licensing. Microsoft doesn't want its OS sales pirated, but it doesn't want to miss out on that market either. Linux apps can be shipped with a free OS; Microsoft apps cannot.
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More lies of course. I didn't take a shot at your family, I took a shot at you pal. You said one of your lies was a typo caused due to the stress of your daughter being terribly sick, so I asked why are you even here at all instead of spending 100 percent of your effort taking care of her?
That's not a shot at her, that's wondering why she isn't getting better care, which is in her better interest.
You'll probably even whine to the moderator again here now, even though you were just complaining they deleted my supposedly evil comments, since I just explained exactly what they were and exactly who they were aimed at - you - for mentioning you had a very sick daughter then admitting you were still wasting your time here instead.
You're sick.
It gets threads pulled, and drives people away.
You can't argue with success.
Wow now you phrase it politely! then you disparaged me as a father not in a 'you should really take care of them' but in an insulting 'thats because youre an oss lunatic who loves software more than his family... The mod pulled the post and shortly after gave you a much deserved vacation from FR..
True or false you have been suspended multiple times by the mod in the past year?
His goal is to squelch discussion of Linux. That's pretty sad, really.
Who knows, but there's nothing I know of stopping them since there's nothing stopping them from taking a single copy of Red Hat and reselling it across the globe as Red Flag is there (no of course not). What should they call this one do you think? Red Star? What's to stop them? Not flamer's BS that's for sure.
It's one thing to post thoughtfully. It's another to take a vicious below-the-belt attack on anyone. Leave our families and personal lives out of it--what happens there is absolutely none of your freakin' business.
Just remember--if the shoe were on the other foot, none of us would be criticizing you at all.
Are you suggesting this weapon system isn't classified?
No, sick is fumbling with FR while your daughter is ill, then blaming her for your "typos".
For all you know he was sitting at her bedside watching her sleep while he posted on FR to distract himself from worrying about her.
Your personal attacks on him are beyond the pale.
I'm your huckleberry.
He brought it up, not me. I simply recommended he provide better care.
What this freak did by ripping on the family of a FRiend is wrong, pure and simple. So stop mentioning it.
You're sick.
What are you now Iggle?
in addition to be a Microsoft Shill you are now a doctor?
Could you be any BIGGER of an A-hole?
heh heh heh heh :)
Bear in mind that flame wars get threads pulled.
Guess who wins?
It isn't as if he's going to win or lose anyway.
I've gotten my shots in. If it gets pulled, it gets pulled.
GE threads have a way of doing that (generally when he gets embarrassed, he whines and complains until the Mods pull it).
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