Vista - Re: MS headstart CRUMBLING like Rome

flyer wrote:
> Where Do You Want To DIE Today.
>
> Fewer and fewer reasons remain to maintain some pathetic, last resort,
> bug ridden, user screwing windows box to run those pathetic last
> remaining programs not yet ported to or written for Linux.
>
> Software developers are seeing the light -- get a LINUX version out the
> door or die right alongside of MS.
>
> The MASSIVE flood of Linux adoption news reports proves the point.
>
> It takes only the slightest glimmer of view into the future to see Linux
> owning ALL computing zones, with software companies either getting Linux
> compatible programs out the door or dying with MS.

http://gopvixen.blogs.com/gop_vixen/images/kool_aid.jpg

You keep on believing that son and maybe someday in the year 2525 it
might actually come true.
All I see is Vista and that is everywhere I look.
The Sunday paper is full of products, hardware, software all kinds of
stuff for Vista.
I don't even see Linux mentioned anywhere.
In fact, the only place I ever see mention of this Linux is in Linux
groups where the people seem to have all drank from the same pitcher
of..........

KOOLAID!

http://gopvixen.blogs.com/gop_vixen/images/kool_aid.jpg

On Sunday 11 March 2007 23:08 opensource.sucks@yahoo.com wrote:

opensource.sucks???

Ye gods - how many more nym-changes of yours do we have to put up with?

opensource.sucks@yahoo.com wrote:

> flyer wrote:
>
>>Where Do You Want To DIE Today.
>>
>>Fewer and fewer reasons remain to maintain some pathetic, last resort,
>>bug ridden, user screwing windows box to run those pathetic last
>>remaining programs not yet ported to or written for Linux.
>>
>>Software developers are seeing the light -- get a LINUX version out the
>>door or die right alongside of MS.
>>
>>The MASSIVE flood of Linux adoption news reports proves the point.
>>
>>It takes only the slightest glimmer of view into the future to see Linux
>>owning ALL computing zones, with software companies either getting Linux
>>compatible programs out the door or dying with MS.
>
>
> You keep on believing that son and maybe someday in the year 2525 it
> might actually come true.
> All I see is Vista and that is everywhere I look.
> The Sunday paper is full of products, hardware, software all kinds of
> stuff for Vista.
> I don't even see Linux mentioned anywhere.
> In fact, the only place I ever see mention of this Linux is in Linux
> groups where the people seem to have all drank from the same pitcher
> of..........
>
> KOOLAID!
>

Of course, just think how much money Microsoft has thrown into its
advertising campaign for Vista instead of putting this money into
making a more secure and safer product or Microsoft using the savings
from a reduced advertising budget into selling Vista with less rapacious
pricing. And the volume of sales of Vista (and its predecessor, XP) can
be attributed to their being bundled into hardware sales of major OEM's,
making the actual unit price of Vista being heavily discounted when
compared to the advertized prices that Microsoft had paid to magazines,
newspapers, etc., to print. Remember, all Linux has to do is to follow
the same playbook that Bill Gates and Microsoft and wrote 25 years ago
to take over popular computing.

opensource.sucks@yahoo.com wrote:
> flyer wrote:
>
> http://gopvixen.blogs.com/gop_vixen/images/kool_aid.jpg
>
> You keep on believing that son and maybe someday in the year 2525 it
> might actually come true.
> All I see is Vista and that is everywhere I look.
> The Sunday paper is full of products, hardware, software all kinds of
> stuff for Vista.

You read a hard-copy Sunday paper? How quaint.

> I don't even see Linux mentioned anywhere.
> In fact, the only place I ever see mention of this Linux is in Linux
> groups where the people seem to have all drank from the same pitcher
> of..........
>
> KOOLAID!

Linux, crop circles, global warming, diversity, anti-smoking, etc. Those
with low self-esteem subsume their miniscule personalities into the goals of
the group. It gives their life meaning. They can then take their mind off
their own meaningless affairs by minding the business of others.

Mistoffolees wrote:

>
> opensource.sucks@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> flyer wrote:
>>
>>> Where Do You Want To DIE Today.
>>>
>>> Fewer and fewer reasons remain to maintain some pathetic, last resort,
>>> bug ridden, user screwing windows box to run those pathetic last
>>> remaining programs not yet ported to or written for Linux.
>>>
>>> Software developers are seeing the light -- get a LINUX version out the
>>> door or die right alongside of MS.
>>>
>>> The MASSIVE flood of Linux adoption news reports proves the point.
>>>
>>> It takes only the slightest glimmer of view into the future to see Linux
>>> owning ALL computing zones, with software companies either getting Linux
>>> compatible programs out the door or dying with MS.
>>
>>
>>
>> You keep on believing that son and maybe someday in the year 2525 it
>> might actually come true.
>> All I see is Vista and that is everywhere I look.
>> The Sunday paper is full of products, hardware, software all kinds of
>> stuff for Vista.
>> I don't even see Linux mentioned anywhere.
>> In fact, the only place I ever see mention of this Linux is in Linux
>> groups where the people seem to have all drank from the same pitcher
>> of..........
>>
>> KOOLAID!
>>
>
> Of course, just think how much money Microsoft has thrown into its
> advertising campaign for Vista instead of putting this money into
> making a more secure and safer product or Microsoft using the savings
> from a reduced advertising budget into selling Vista with less rapacious
> pricing. And the volume of sales of Vista (and its predecessor, XP) can
> be attributed to their being bundled into hardware sales of major OEM's,
> making the actual unit price of Vista being heavily discounted when
> compared to the advertized prices that Microsoft had paid to magazines,
> newspapers, etc., to print. Remember, all Linux has to do is to follow
> the same playbook that Bill Gates and Microsoft and wrote 25 years ago
> to take over popular computing.

Humm, even giving away CD's with magazines hasn't worked. And don't
forget that 25 years ago there wasn't an installed OS base. Now let's
say they did use that playbook AND there was considerable financial
reward for being number one, THEN maybe in 100 years give or take, there
may be a "Linux" desktop on a majority on the PC's. On the other hand,
perhaps we just wait and see if there is any "desktops" in 100 years!