__/ [ Victor I. Trevino ] on Saturday 30 December 2006 10:40 \__
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:01:05 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Just one among hundreds of Linux distributions.
>>
>> Linux: Ubuntu Founder On Microsoft "Challenge"
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth talks why it may finally be time for |
>> Linux to out-innovate Apple and Microsoft on the desktop. `----
>>
>> (url cut due to Pan bitching)
>>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> Mark Shuttleworth: Linux is the Future (Interview)
>>
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>> | Microsoft is trying to control Linux with various license
>> restrictions. | I don't think there won?t be a positive outcome from
>> this and once | day the Microsoft-Novell union will collapse. Every day
>> interest to | Linux is growing, that is very good. And as I said, all
>> facts and | events are showing that Linux is the operating system of the
>> Future. `----
>>
>> http://www.youtux.org/content/view/186/2/
>
> Vista's DRM crippleware will surely lead to a fall in Windows faith.
> People will realize that not being able to play their favorite music
> without buying it just doesn't cut it. Vista's DRM is going to leave
> Windows' days of popularity numbered. I know very few people who actually
> buy their music via online services such as iTunes Store. Most of my
> friends have MP3 collections, and finding that they're unable to play
> music is surely not going to be fun. MS will surely defend against
> anti-DRM hacks with its WGA crap, leaving machines unable to access
> critical system updates and therefore compromising system security. People
> will not spend more money on Macs, and they'll be left with one option:
> FOSS.
>
> I've said it a million times and I will say it again. I'm not anti-MS. I
> believe that you should be allowed to do whatever the hell you want with
> your computer - you bought it. DRM is going to be Windows' demise for
> sure.
Microsoft got greedy. It thought it had the world in its hand,
unconditionally. Every day I see people who were loyal to Microsoft.
Suddenly they yell out that they have "had enough". The recent writeup from
Gutmann stirred up a lot of activity. The arrogance [1] of the giant not
only led the World Wide Web to a state of chaos where people are threatened
and 92%+ of E-mail is SPAM, but it also helped show that the visions of
Ortwell were justified. And the Stalinists of Redmond are yet to see what
backlash is all about. Vista is RTM'd. It is the longest suicide note in
history, now lying in the belly of a 300pb postbox, inevitably ready to be
shipped to its vocation.
[1] Microsoft : Arrogance leads to Vulnerability
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| Chatting with the Microsoft senior sales people, I was struck by
| their incredible arrogance. They know the company?s products are good,
| but they have no qualms whatsoever about charging top dollar as a
| result.
|
| It reminds us how Microsoft used to behave when it comes to their
| products' security records. IE5 and 6 were nothing short of being
| proper Swiss Cheese with loads of holes in them but hey, they had 95%
| of the browser market at that time and couldn't care less.
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=514
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