Posted on 03/12/2007 6:10:13 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
I like MS Windows. I surrender!
Ubuntu is a free Linux distro. It is arguably the easiest to use and most user friendly flavor of Linux. "Ubuntu" is not an organization so no, it will not be paid.
However they are securing the services of specialists to maintain their systems with regular updates, etc., similar to any Windows sys admin you would find in any business.
Only you know, indebted to Open Source communism or whatever weird angle you seem to be pushing on this.
I'm posting from my Kubuntu desktop right now. It's great! No Vista for me.
Political Leaning and Free Software [hmmm...]
(But then again, the more extreme of my decidedly liberal friends always did seem to prefer Macs. Those who were politically indifferent preferred Windows, and I never did figure out where conservatives were, because they seemed to be all over the map -- except, in general, with Apple.)
People don't like the French. Use that to attack Linux. That's just weak argumentation.
BUMP!
http://www.linuxsucks.org/
and so do the French
I apologize but I cannot take seriously any site whose contributors use the words "pwn" and "wind0ze " without irony.
I'm using Kubuntu 6.10 and am happy. The first Linux distro I've seen (in 9 years) that simply installed and ran, as easy as Windows. And a clean look and feel that I like (based on years of using Windows).
It's not perfect: getting a printer going was not a cakewalk, only because the manufacturers of the various printers around the house hadn't produced drivers and color calibration utilities for Linux -- and who could blame them, with so many distros out and none dominant?
Vista's DRM bothers me. Actually, the DRM regime concerns me. My MP3 player now sports Rockbox instead of its native firmware, for no reason other than if I have to replace my player I don't want to have to spend hours upon days re-ripping all my CDs (or MP3s) to a proprietary DRMed format.
“They’re putting Linux in ice cream, Mandrake. Children’s ice cream!”
Thats OK, it was more of a joke posting anyways ,I really havent read that site.
My two visits to France were a pleasure, other than I don't like their way-overheated buildings with grossly low airflow rates. The people were quite nice and friendly to this obvious American, even in Paris.
(There may be a difference between disliking America and disliking Americans, but I did not encounter the infamous rude Parisians.)
Here, let me help.
France is evil.
France is Communist.
France is wrong.
French people are stupid, and mean, and they smell bad too.
And they surrender all the time.
Everything about France is bad.
The French Parliament has switched to Linux.
Therefore, they have surrendered to Linux.
Therefore, Linux is wrong, bad, evil, Communist, stupid, mean and smells bad.
Q.E.D.
But it's stealing millions if not billions from US companies that could be providing that software, just as it was designed to do.
Tom Clancy and El Rushbo are Mac users. As is Charles Johnson of LittleGreenFootballs. Not all Mac users are liberal moonbats, but it does have that reputation.
Thanks for the info! One of my sisters is a Mac user too, and though she doesn't talk politics I see her as a conservative in the way in which she reaches out to the needy.
It is only "stealing" if the US companies had the right to the revenue in the first place.
Linux is like MySpace.com. Except in a couple of key markets, MySpace is FREE. It has become huge because it's free, and huge brings its own dynamic in train.
MySpace has been criticized severely because it isn't a paysite; by being free, it sucks all the air out of all the other markets (it's hard to compete with free!). Well, the owner of MySpace's view is that he makes plenty of money just off the paying part of it, doesn't need more, and doesn't want to charge for it.
Needless to say, it's tough to bring monopoly charges against somebody when the monopoly actually drives DOWN the cost of consumers, through the floor, because it gives stuff away.
Linux and MySpace seem to have been invented and developed by people with the same model in mind: "I need only a little for myself, and everyone else can benefit from having this for free." The fellow who invented the match back in the 19th Century had the same view, that simple matches were such an important tool that they should be available to everyone, and he put the match into the public domain rather than profiting off of it.
If more people behaved this way, it would change the whole nature of the society.
Anyway, Linux and MySpace aren't stealing anything from anybody by giving it away. People have the right to give away their property if they want to.
I hope they don't mind compiling their own software - after compiling the compiler first, of course.
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