Check out some hilarious Linux article comments posted by a hilariously misinformed person:
It wont happen I dont see how this will happen at all.
Vista is far more powerful than windows XP, and runs twice as fast. It is also much harder to pirate, and this point more than anything else has the Linux crowd in a panic.
It wont be long until Windows XP is no longer supported, and when that happens, what is Linux going to do ?
Linux will have to find a way to work under Vista from here on, since it wont be able to rely on XP being readily available anymore.
Linux may seem like a good alternative to Office, but all that is happening in linux is that the windows interface is cleverly hidden away. It still needs the drivers and software services in order to run, and in most cases - that happens WITHOUT a valid windows licence.
This is just plain piracy.
Vista will finally put an end to this blatant abuse of intellectual property, and linux should decline, taking the pirates with it.
Anyone that supports the continuation of Windows XP in place of Vista surely has a hidden agenda .. and you will surely be caught out.
that wont work without THEFT of intellectual property Linux looks very interesting, even if some of the screen colours and menu options appear to be a little out of the ordinary.
But you are missing a vital point, a point which takes some experience and depth of knowledge in the field of computers. You see, when a computer boots up, it needs to load various drivers and then load various services. This happens long before the operating system and other applications are available.
Linux is a marvellous operating system in its own right, and even comes in several different flavours. However, as good as these flavours are, they first need Microsoft Windows to load the services prior to use.
In Linux, the open office might be the default for editing your wordfiles, and you might prefer ubuntu brown over the grassy knoll of the windows desktop, but mark my words young man - without the windows drivers sitting below the visible surface, allowing the linus to talk to the hardware, it is without worth.
And so, by choosing your linux as an alternative to windows on the desktop, you still need a windows licence to run this operating system through the windows drivers to talk to the hardware. Linux is only a code, it cannot perform the low level function.
My point being, young man, that unless you intend to pirate and steal the Windows drivers and services, how is using the linux going to save money ? Well ? It seems that no linux fan can ever provide a straight answer to that question !
May as well just stay legal, run the Windows drivers, and run Office on the desktop instead of the linus.
Vista is the Future Its clearly evident that vista is the future.
One only has to watch TV for a short period of time and see the advertising.
WOW !!
I personally love the part where the young man is taking a stroll in the delightful snow covered streets, and sees firsthand a young deer with a gleefull glint in its eye. It sends a shiver down my spine. WOW is all I can say.
Vista is clearly the future of enterprise computing.
Source :
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=908 (User : jerryleecooper)
Comedy goldmine, for you Linux fans ;P
~Kujila
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 Jan 20 2008, 10:52 pm
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It's like some sort of a train wreck... in super slow motion...
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He also now has his own 'fan' site: http://jerryleecooper.com/
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I ... he ... *dead*.
Please tell me this isn't serious, at all. | |
That's just plain sad. One would hope through the usage of such terms as "young man" the writer was conveying sarcasm... but...
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He needs to be shut down or enlightened. If you look at his site he even calls himself the Net Guru...bad idea.
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KodeNerd wrote:
He needs to be shut down or enlightened. If you look at his site he even calls himself the Net Guru...bad idea. That's not his website you realize. That's a "fan" site. I doubt the guy has the mental capacity to create a blog. | |
Kujila wrote:
Comedy goldmine, for you Linux fans ;P And even for those who aren't! ;D | |
Hazman wrote:
He also now has his own 'fan' site: http://jerryleecooper.com/ If you want to make a multitasking, multithreading OS with an interface similar to XP, I would say one year is a reasonable time frame. For vista it’s more difficult since there’s the 3d cards for them you need to write drivers. YOu also need to write network support for your os to be like microsoft’s. But please remember, The microsoft operating system is plagued with politics, negociations, legacy support and all that, and if making an operating system just like what microsoft did is really what you want, Im sure you can do it in less time microsoft did it, if you work on it full time. But about this particular opensource operating system that just want to be exactly like windows, I don’t know. Reactos is its name, http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html What the hell? digitalmouse wrote: oy, who dried up the gene pool while i wasn’t looking? LOL! Oh, and by the way: this guy is definately doing this to become more popular. -- Data | |
KodeNerd wrote:
You just know someone will believe him and create more problems. He's pretty obviously a troll or an idiot; it's when actual Microsoft representatives say the same things, but with better grammar and more press, that the real problems occur. | |
But the Microsoft representatives DO say the same thing with better grammar and more press :(
I am lost for words. That was the biggest pile of bull-- that I have ever read.. well not the biggest.. But everyone knows Apple is the biggest pirateer of Windows. They stole the OS back in 84 and put a new skin on it. Now they have the XP drivers running Mac Aqua. Their latest system used to be code-named ProjectX. A pirate act started in the late 90's to make Microsofts OS look different. They even made the buttons work and look different! | |
I think it's pretty well founded that apple got the interface from xerox, and from apple, windows stole their interface.
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Firstly I was being sarcastic, secondly Windows is an operating system, it can't steal anything, and thirdly capitalize next time. I think you either meant Microsoft stole from Apple, or Windows stole from Mac.. Either way, it was sarcasm. Don't take it seriously. Linux > All
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*shakes head*
He's neither a troll nor an idiot. He's a satirical comedian. He knows that he's talking out of his 'grand opening', and it greatly amuses anyone who's above the understanding that a Mouse isn't a foot-pedal (please excuse my mother's mother... computers were new...) I think its fairly funny, but the comedy wears thin fast enough. ~Ease~ | |
Clearly the Windows desktop is simply a pirated version of an actual desk. Anyone using a Windows laptop on their lap is not using a desk, therefore their version of Windows does not have a valid license key. Without that desk providing good reaction force to gravity, any computer would just fall to the floor - and laps are clearly not desks.