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FUD: "Linux Still Doesn't Make it On Desktop"

A response to that FUD piece, "Linux Still Doesn't Make it On Desktop", from Microsoft Shill, Michael Gartenberg

Michael Gartenberg MugshotThis piece is so heavily encrypted into FUD, that it's necessary to provide a full translation, as follows:

Even Unix workstation vendors had thoughts of moving beyond scientific and engineering applications to mainstream knowledge worker desktops.

Translation: He arrogantly presumed, and continues to assume, that *nix solutions will never be useful to anyone but geeks, despite the fact that there is nothing that can be done on Windows that cannot also be done on *nix, perhaps with the exception of being part of a spam bot-net ... and frequently crashing (thus losing productivity).

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Dubya - the Worst Political Leader in History

Dubya Bin LadenI'm not an American, in fact I've never even been there (and frankly I don't think I ever will), but like most people I am completely appalled by the tenure in office of Mr. George "Dubya" Bush - a man who makes the most notorious dictators in history look tame by comparison.

I thought I knew quite a bit about how corrupt and evil Dubya was, until I came across a Blog called Monkey Lunch, which recites a litany of scandals against El Presidente several miles long.

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Attack of the Giant Spider

OMGWTFBBQ!!!

On a scale of 1 to Arachnophobia, the spider that I found earlier today in my house probably wouldn't score very highly, but compared to the spiders that I usually see in my part of the world, it was bloody huge, therefore I will share this terrifying discovery with the rest of the Blogosphere, for you to mock and scorn with wild abandon.

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Novell's Hollow Gesture

Photo of Hovsepian selling his soul to the devil

When Hovsepian signed a pact with Ballmer, it was tantamount to an admission of guilt over IP infringements, and thus put every other GNU/Linux distributor in a compromising position, putting pressure on those distributors to also make that "confession" and join that protection racket. This further undermined the perceived integrity of GNU/Linux - forcing companies to re-evaluate their positions on Open Source - and decide between either abandoning their GNU/Linux adoption plans, or stick with the "safe" Novell distribution. Pity it didn't quite work out the way Microsoft hoped but nevertheless, the intention was malicious, and Novell was complicit. I hope they enjoy their 30 pieces of silver, and don't spend it all at once.

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Netherlands Goes Open Source

17 September 2007 - All government agencies must change to open source software, the national government says in an action plan presented today. Amsterdam is already testing such software and will decide on whether to renew its Microsoft contract in December.

http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source.htm

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