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"It seems our friend Kwasi has a history of being anti-open source software"

Open sourece software? What is that?
Oh you mean the garbage software.
Naah. Don't have any use for it.

# 1, where I come from(Ghana) Kwasi Owusu is very common name.
I'd say there are at least 500,000 Owusus out there and every male child born on a Sunday is called Kwasi.Its like John Smith in England, there are hundreds of thousands of them. As usual you didn't bother to do any research before opening your mouth, just like in your previous post. :) So sorry. :)

# 2, the following points from that poster are even more valid today than a year ago.
"In spite of all the Linux hype, Microsoft continues to INCREASE their market share in BOTH the desktop and servers, going up to an all time high of 55% in servers for 2002 according to IDC BR> Microsoft doesn't sound much to me like a company in trouble here do they?"

If anything Microsoft is even stronger financially today than they were last year.

Another excerpt: " We haven't even talked about Microsoft's RECORD sales and profits in the last quarter and the expected RECORD sales and profits in the current quarter in which Microsoft will achieve sales of $8 billion in one quarter for the first time in Microsoft history.
Then there is the little matter of a handsome $51 Billion in cash at the bank!"

Even more valid today than ever.
Until Microsoft paid out that huge dividend on Dec 2 (I got a very nice check for $6000) :)), Micrsooft's cash pile was even bigger than then at $60 Billion. Plus of course Microsoft is now making quarterly sales of $10 Billion, expect that to go over $10 Billion when this quarter's figures are released in January.

# 3, what has that got to do with the fact that I just clobbered you so far on every single point that you brought up? and continue to do so even as we speak?

You are losing on this thread so you go and drag up some rubbish from somewhere to shore up your fast failing defences? Typical. What else can you expect from weaselly loony left crazies?
Sounds to me like you are getting pretty desperate. :)

KwasiOwusu 4 Socrates1 0

I said: Perhaps you should do a little homework before you make idiotic statements about "hundreds" of PC operating system.

You said "hundreds", and list (5) to "prove" your point. Assertions are not proofs.

You said: "Would it be asking too much to ask you to do the same? LMAO! "

Any evidence that I didn't? I owned several of them, and am very familiar with the rest.

You said: "As usual you didn't bother to do any research before opening your mouth, just like in your previous post. :) So sorry. :) "

They fact that I found it is my evidence. (Hint: Google) Your ignorance speaks for itself . The fact that your writing style and phraselogy is so similar reinforces the likelihood that it wasn't on of the other 499,999. I noticed you didn't deny that it was you. Nice try, but it didn't work

You said: "Until Microsoft paid out that huge dividend on Dec 2 (I got a very nice check for $6000) ."

Your bias speaks for itself, and further reinforces the speculation that you are a MS-Droid

You said: "# 3, what has that got to do with the fact that I just clobbered you so far on every single point that you brought up? and continue to do so even as we speak."

Yeah, just like Kerry won all the debates. You haven't refuted a single point yet. You just assert you narrow, prejudidiced position and pretend they are facts. Pure, sophistry.

You said: "You are losing on this thread so you go and drag up some rubbish from somewhere to shore up your fast failing defences? "

Yes, it was rubbish, and the fact that you just requoted as "proof:" of your point speaks volumes.

You said: "Typical. What else can you expect from ?
Sounds to me like you are getting pretty desperate. :) . "

I noticed you carefully dodged the comparison to IBM and AT&T. The arguments you make for Microsoft closely pattern their Kool-Aid drinkers made for years.

Your continual references to "weaselly loony left crazies", "open source lunatics", " bunch of commies and anarchists", "evil propaganda", "biggest fraud and con on the net", "Strengthened means just that, straightened." indicates that you have little interest in discussion.

It's like having a debate with a Democrat - You and JFKerry can sit around and try to convince each other that you both won your respective "debates."

State your assertions, prove that they are valid, then state your conlusion. If you can't do that, you are just a MS-Troll XP (extra pretentious).

BTW the "open source prophets" you so revile have an extensive track record. You should extract your head from your anal orrifice and look around.For example, you said,: "Bottom line: firefox is NOT TCP/IP"

But it is an example of an open-source application, that implements an open-source standard (HTML, et al), that is part of an open-source protocol suite.

"Unix" follows a similar pattern, with various vendors producing their own proprietary implementations over time. Beginning in 1983, the development of various "extensions" to the "TCP/IP suite" have been presumed (first and foremost) that "*nix" was the underlying operating system. All implementations appeared on *nix first, even if later Microsoft implementations were created.

Unix History

History has "proved" that proprietary architectures (e.g.operating systems) eventually die. We live in an Open Standards world.

Deal with it.