Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Apr 2009 22:32 UTC
According to Canonical head honcho Mark Shuttleworth, Windows 7 presents the ideal opportunity for Linux to gain significant inroads into the desktop market. He said so in an interview with InternetNews. While I certainly do hope so, an eerie sense of deja vu creeps up on me: isn't this like the 923298th opportunity where Linux is supposed to make inroads into the desktop market?
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Member since:2005-07-06
Come on kaiwai. You jump to a different fanboy camp every 8 months or so. Linux fanboy. Then Solaris fanboy. Then Apple fanboy. (You are still in the Apple camp, right? Or have I lost track?) Your current love can do no wrong. And all your previous loves you cast as Satans.
I've been using Mac's since 2002, and FreeBSD full time from 2002 to 1997, and Linux from 1995 to 1997 (with some dabbling on an old computer to keep up to speed with the changes).
Before I was kaiwai, I was a variety of other names before osnews had an login system (back in 2001) - I have always been a Mac fanboy; I do however come in when I see things being said about a given platform that are patently false; that doesn't make me a fanboy, it makes me a person who wants to see a robust debate that is based around reality rather than lying about the current state of affairs regarding the said alternative operating system.
Here is your post. The one I responded to:
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A lot of that could be solved by Linux embracing Mach-O and drag and drop installation of software. The problem is that open source would rather keep rehashing the same ideas over and over again instead of looking at their competition and recognising a good idea that they should adopt and possible build upon.
"""
That's it in it's entirety, kaiwai. Please point out the part where you defended your bizarre recommendations.
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A lot of that could be solved by Linux embracing Mach-O and drag and drop installation of software. The problem is that open source would rather keep rehashing the same ideas over and over again instead of looking at their competition and recognising a good idea that they should adopt and possible build upon.
"""
That's it in it's entirety, kaiwai. Please point out the part where you defended your bizarre recommendations.
*YOU* stated the following:
"Change Linux's binary format just for the heck of it"
"just for the heck of it" implies that I advocate the change of the format for no other reason than I want to. Take a reading class. You clearly claimed that I wanted to change it for no other reason than for the sake of changing it, in your words, 'for the heck of it".
I provide *SOME* (but not all) reasons as to why it should be changed but YOU ignored it. It is YOU who fails to grasp the basics of english through your lack of understanding when using a turn of phrase such as "for the the heck of it".
As for your critique of Mac OS X, you obviously know NOTHING about how Mac OS X works; the fact that your zealotry blinds you from seeing a good technology when it exists demonstrates that you've turned your operating system from just that, an operating system, into a religion.
Edit: interesting, and the original poster uses one of his many sock puppets to moderate my post down rather than entering into a discourse over the flaws in his posts. Really shows the nature of the Linux zealot on osnews.com - when faced with the flaws in his post - he creates several sock puppet accounts and moderates the post down.
Edited 2009-04-04 01:32 UTC
Member since:2005-07-24
As for your critique of Mac OS X, you obviously know NOTHING about how Mac OS X works; the fact that your zealotry blinds you from seeing...
But I haven't commented upon MacOS.
BTW, I thought your post (the one I'm responding to) was more fun before you heavily edited it and took out the 23 exclamation points. (Yes, I counted them before you posted the edited version.) :-)
Member since:2005-06-29
Edit: interesting, and the original poster uses one of his many sock puppets to moderate my post down rather than entering into a discourse over the flaws in his posts. Really shows the nature of the Linux zealot on osnews.com - when faced with the flaws in his post - he creates several sock puppet accounts and moderates the post down.
Jesus Christ, kaiwai, your post was moderated down by two respected users of OSNews, both of whom have nothing to do with Steve. Why can't you just accept that sometimes, you come across as an arrogant insulting twat, and get downmodded for it.
And rightly so.
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2005-07-24
Come on kaiwai. You jump to a different fanboy camp every 8 months or so. Linux fanboy. Then Solaris fanboy. Then Apple fanboy. (You are still in the Apple camp, right? Or have I lost track?) Your current love can do no wrong. And all your previous loves you cast as Satans.
Here is your post. The one I responded to:
"""
A lot of that could be solved by Linux embracing Mach-O and drag and drop installation of software. The problem is that open source would rather keep rehashing the same ideas over and over again instead of looking at their competition and recognising a good idea that they should adopt and possible build upon.
"""
That's it in it's entirety, kaiwai. Please point out the part where you defended your bizarre recommendations.
Edited 2009-04-04 00:21 UTC