--- On Tue, 7/21/09, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx <gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx <gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Ranter or evangelist? > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:33 PM > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 08:08 > +0500, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > >> Excuse me for being rude > > > > No. > > > > Oh, and I'm middle-aged, and run a debt free > business. Being doing so > > for over twenty years. i.e. I live in the real > world, and one that's > > well managed. > > > > The one needing to get a clue, here, is you. You > ONLY speak for > > yourself, and opinions are NOT facts. > > I was just about to go to bed but this message kept > haunting me. There's > lots of truth in what you say here: why care about anything > but the facts > and be haunted by questions instead of facts? Sometimes I > really wished I > was like you... > > Microsoft has 90% of market share, Linux only 1% and people > at Microsoft > certainly are very glad. So, why should we be sad? Wouldn't > this be giving > Microsoft an edge in gladness? > > And if, tomorrow, Linux only has only .01% of the desktop > market, would > that be any reason to be sad? Of course not, since you and > the codec geeks > -- they'll undoubtedly be the last! -- will always hold the > flag. So, > you'll be glad not to be bothered by know-nothing like me > and Microsoft... > will they ever be glad! > > Once again, everybody will be glad. So why worry, be > happy! > > Still, a last question keeps haunting me. No doubt, by now, > since it's all > well documented facts, you've read "From Microsoft Word to > Microsoft > World". In this document, Newman explains how, using its > proprietary > formats, Microsoft got rid of pretty much all competition. > It brought > every company to their knees, thn, bought and scrapped them > one after the > other. > > Of course, Microsoft can't play this game with Linux, since > Linux uses... > or tries to use open formats. Still, sometimes I wonder if, > with all the > money it has, Microsoft couldn't find a way to keep the cap > on Linux. You > know, keep it at an acceptable level of nuisance, say, 1% > of market share > after 18 years. > > Arrrgh! I'm afraid that's what I'll dream about tonight. > What a pain I am, > even to myself! > > -- Micro$oft is losing out to google, Twitter, Facebook and others. In a last ditch effort. Micro$oft is releasing code to linux. Check out this at distrowatch. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090720 I like comment 133. It sounds just about right. There are many nice comments there. BTW, Redhat also signed a deal with them, are they really falling off or are they the Borg that is portrayed in comment 133? Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
