Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 (edited) Ok, there's a site here: http://linuxsucks.org Guess what their host runs? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=w...=linuxsucks.org Edited December 27, 2003 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Well, actually, after having read some of the things he/she has to say on that site, I kinda see the point. Maybe this site actually has a noble purpose behind it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatk Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Personally, i thought it was funny how they think Windows is God compared to Linux, i have only been using linux for a couple of months (i have had it installed for a few years, but i never really messed around with it like i am now) and i am loving it. Being able to control everything and learning something that is quite hard to grasp at first is fun. I remember working in tech support during my last year in highschool/ first year in college this guy was talking to me, and he was like "F*** microsoft nad blah blah" he was so much fun to talk to. I talked to him on the phone for like hours about stuff, it was fun. http://****microsoft.com/ great site too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 I loved the one about why most linux zealots are european. I quote "Most Linux zealots are European because Europe is a continent populated by liberal socialists that hate capitalism and corporations. Europeans oppose intellectual property rights and the rights of owners of intellectual property to profit off of their intellectual property. Europeans dislike merchants. European liberals believe all intellectual property should be public domain." Whats depressing is that you know the guy must be intelligent, it would be funny but I think he believes it. But do you wonder if Europeans occasionally perceive America as a country peopled by semi literate (liberal socialist?), gun-toting paranoid nutters ready to gun down anybody that disagrees with anything they say, and no I don't believe you are. Joking aside can't they perceive open source as a different business model that has a place in a competitive market place. If taken up I could see a lot of scope for new businesses advising and implementing open source solutions for businesses. Most of the computer consultants I meet that are hostile to linux are wetting themselves because they know they can't compete and can see their income streams disappearing. Well that what competition in business means. The IT industry is changing and the pace of change is increasing adapt or die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 gmac, that is the real issue in all of this: changing income streams. A weakness of the capitalist, (you'll never hear me say that again!) is that once an income stream is identified and successfully used, all changes to that stream are thought of as evil! It's like when we stopped using horses for daily life, the stable owners and the feed association would have gone to the government to prevent those nasty automobiles from being used! IT is changing. Those who change with it will make money. Those who do not change or fight the change will disappear. The whole concept of a rant sight is a little juvenile for my tastes. I'm afraid I could not stay there very long, and certainly had no compulsion to post! My toy is better than your toy! Is not! Is too! Is not! Is too! Is not! Is too! Yikes!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatk Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 ixthusdan, you are right, and there are many more weaknesses of capitalism too that are getting exploited every single day. I recently read the Communist Maefesto, and boy, did it wake me up. I was like, omg, Marx is right on a lot of the things he says about capitalism. However, it would be interesting to see America under a communist ecomony, not government mind you, just ecomnomy. In fact, probably in the next century you will see US heading towards it, as the gap between the lower and upper class continues to widen, and the dwendling middle class slowly sinks to the lower class, it will be interesting times. But most likely something will happen to balance them out. My point is that yes i agree with you guys that Linux is going to take a big chuck of the market soon, and it is best to get on the band wagon now and not miss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Did you say Marx? B) Karl Marx would not advocate a linux type of os!! In fact, the control of ms is more like Marx! How else could the plague of alienated humanity be purged from the stream of human consciousness? But, this is off-topic for this thread! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 thats an amusing site although I didnt understand the graph on the second link... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Personally, i thought it was funny how they think Windows is God compared to Linux, i have only been using linux for a couple of months (i have had it installed for a few years, but i never really messed around with it like i am now) and i am loving it. Being able to control everything and learning something that is quite hard to grasp at first is fun. I remember working in tech support during my last year in highschool/ first year in college this guy was talking to me, and he was like "F*** microsoft nad blah blah" he was so much fun to talk to. I talked to him on the phone for like hours about stuff, it was fun. http://****microsoft.com/ great site too. WOW... thats a wicked site! there is alot of information there that I didnt know about microshaft. Im particularly alarmed by the "microsofts really hidden files" article. Scary! Im really glad Im never use my xp drive anymore... auh man, bill is the bwahahahaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnubie Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 In a communist society there would be a single OS and it would be the property of the government and under the government's control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 That is correct, which is why I think ms is closer to a communist ideal than linux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 (edited) fatk your post just scared the hell out of me http://****microsoft.com/ great site too. I don't use Window$ anymore except for NHL2004. Sorry love hockey :woops: I must admit in my youthful past that I may have "misplaced" my product license :deal: But as I got older I wanted to make sure I had them for all my software. Mainly for the upgrade and support stuff. TO be honest I have never registered any software I have bought. I just don't like given my personal info out. I have had some companies require me to give my personal info to get over the phone support. Id say no way Ill buy a different product. Scared to find out M$ may have not cared and "identified" my even though I said not to. Back in the day when you got windows95 on floppy disks (yea I was one of them) anti piracy was not so good. All the companies are getting better now. With M$ "product activation" leading the pack. Edited December 28, 2003 by ac_dispatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 From the same site. "News: Main Public Reply to Whats so bad about microsoft...? I don't have a problem with people choosing Linux... By jj791999 Comments: 571, member since Mon Feb 25, 2002 On Sun Dec 28, 2003 12:10 PM ...but I do have a problem with people who choose to stop using Microsoft products and go the Linux route and still continue to bitch about Microsoft. If you don't like Microsoft then don't buy and use their products and stop bitching. It's as simple as that." The one thing that really antagonises me about microsoft is that they don't want me to have a choice. I'm stuck with it and will probably have to upgrade at some point to windows XP purely because there is one eseential programme that I need to use. When I ask the techie guys at the provider why they don't use linux they often do themselves but have to provide what the market demands, or what they are told to by thge marketing people. In buying a computer now the expensive part is the software if Micrisoft implement the yearly licence renewal for the worktop they are going to price themselves out of the market. Give them credit for making computers accessible to a mass market but all monopolists eventually fail if market forces are left to work. Despite America having the toughest anti trust laws in the world they don't seem able to apply them effectively to microsoft. " I recently read the Communist Maefesto, and boy, did it wake me up. I was like, omg, Marx is right on a lot of the things he says about capitalism. " Remember the time he was writing in, no universal suffrage and monarchs still ruled. Most of his critics have never read him, nor have most so called marxists. If you have an open mind don't let it be obscured by the dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNFERiON Posted December 29, 2003 Report Share Posted December 29, 2003 Hehe, that was a laugh. These sites have some great anti-windows replies on stories :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted December 29, 2003 Report Share Posted December 29, 2003 yes, the f**kmicrosoft site was pretty interesting, and the Really Hidden Files is definately scary. Every day I learn something else about my winbox that shows it is really my enemy. At least I have abandoned MS Office on my winbox, and am now using OOo 1.1. Guess its time now to dump IE and install Moz Firebird or something, after I go thru all the hassle of getting rid of my hidden history. I don't think I've been a naughty boy in quite some time, but might as well be safe.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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