Posted on 12/10/2006 2:19:05 PM PST by ShadowAce
You sure do have an extremely narrow mind. Why limit yourself to Microsoft, when there are other American Unix products from companies such as Apple and Sun? I sure don't limit myself to Microsoft, there are some tasks on my network that are just too critical.
Hey look it's another one of the college kids. Except I think this dropped out to focus on being a fan of professional sports.
LOL
And BTW, at least I can post pics WITHOUT using anything from your homepage....
Way to show your absolute LACK of imagination loser.
"You sure do have an extremely narrow mind. Why limit yourself to Microsoft, when there are other American Unix products from companies such as Apple and Sun? I sure don't limit myself to Microsoft, there are some tasks on my network that are just too critical."
Well, it just so happens that I have both a MacBookPro and a Sun workstation. I'm getting the impression that you may be an old-school Unix guy who lost a job or something as a result of competition from Linux. Well, if that's the case, I'm relieved that you are not really as dumb as you seem to be. However, you would do yourself a big favor to drop the irrational hostility to Linux.
Then why are you wasting your time defending some foreign clone backed by radical leftists? Hoping Howard Dean might hire you at the DNC?
I'm getting the impression that you may be an old-school Unix guy who lost a job or something as a result of competition from Linux.
I haven't lost my job to Linux but thousands of American engineers have. Governments all over the world are now cloning Unix for free without a dime back to the US, I'm sure that just tickles you pink. Or should I say pinko.
Poor Mike, his life of poverty and begging others for handouts has left him resentful of the more fortunate. Nope I don't work for Microsoft, never have never plan to. But it is consistently ranked among the best places in the world to work, I doubt you could even get an interview.
"Then why are you wasting your time defending some foreign clone backed by radical leftists? Hoping Howard Dean might hire you at the DNC?"
Just out of curiousity, do you have any idea how vulnerable Apple is to the whims of Bill Gates and Co.? If Apple started getting "too big" for Bill's tastes, he could announce that he is will discontinue support for MS Office on the Mac, and Apple stock would virtually collapse. As long as the Office monopoly is intact, Apple essentially exists at the pleasure of MS.
OK, that may be a slight overstatement, but only because OpenOffice (GPL license, I believe) and Open Document Format (ODF) are *starting* to make inroads into MS's control over public communication standards. If not for Linux, OO, and ODF, every word in the preceding paragraph would be 100% true.
Suppose the airline industry was dominated by one company that handled 95% of public travel. Would that bother you at all? If you think it is fine that one company could control the entire PC industry, you don't understand the most fundamental principal behind capitalism and free enterprise: competition.
And the fact that the competition to MS had to come from free products is only further testimony to the failure of free enterprise in this case. As I said earlier, I believe in the free market, and I believe the current MS pathology can be corrected. I hope so, anyway.
Whatever Mikie. Last time you tried claiming you administered a network you ended up admitting you didn't actually have any rights on it LOL.
Ridiculous. Is that actually why you claim you support leftists and foreign software? A lack of Microsoft Office would put Apple out of business? LMAO
you don't understand the most fundamental principal behind capitalism and free enterprise: competition.
Competition is essential, but I don't have to personally support Stallman or vote Green Party or Democrat for it to be there. There's enough leftists and leftists supporters out there already, case in point you're supporting them supposedly in the name of "competition" yourself.
"Ridiculous. Is that actually why you claim you support leftists and foreign software? A lack of Microsoft Office would put Apple out of business? LMAO"
You really *are* clueless, aren't you. I feel like a fool for not realizing it a lot sooner. Well, I did, but I was in denial. Not any more.
Fools are those that support foreign clones over American originals, especially when they're backed by leftists.
"Fools are those that support foreign clones over American originals, especially when they're backed by leftists."
a) Linux is not a "clone" of unix.
b) Linus Torvalds lives in the US and has for several years.
c) Linus is no more a "leftist" than many wealthy industrialists and their heirs in the US. Do you refuse to use Heinz Ketchup too?
d) How are you "supporting" anyone when they are giving you the software for free and allowing you to do anything you want with it (except to modify it and sell the modified executable without also making the modified source available).
Game, set, match. You lose.
a) Obviously wrong. b) So we could lay off thousands of Americans? c) Still defending Stallman I see. d) don't worry, we understand free stuff is your #1 priority.
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