Some Linux lover guy has set an ambitious goal. He wants to put a Linux advertisement on an Indy 500 car. See here. All he needs to do is raise $350,000 in a month. And as he points out, this should be easy because there are so many millions of Linux users, and all he needs is for 350,000 of them to send him a dollar each. Unfortunately the freetards haven't been cooperating, and so far he's raised only $5,000. Weird, right? I mean, who would have thought that people who use free software would turn out to be cheapskates? Worse yet, instead of sending money, a bunch of the Linux freaks instead decided to attack his website and splatter porn all over it. See his complaint about the whole thing here.
It's really worth reading these articles to get a glimpse of a full-blown Microsoft panic. Note, for example, his link to some Microsoft take-over-the-planet documents, which Linux Man calls "Evangalism [sic] is War." Sadly, he seems to be under the impression that if the entire world does not adopt Linux, we'll all be doomed to use nothing but Microsoft software. Should we maybe tell him about OS X? More important, should we help this dude out and send him some money so he can have his Linux race car?
And why oh why are these Linu-tics always hatching these grand schemes, like online petitions and fund-raising campaigns? Why can't they just be like Apple fans, and just buy their superior products and smugly shake their heads at the dopes who don't know any better than to run Windows?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Help a Linux lover live his dream
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If we do, I wonder if well see a redneck verison of Linux?
I'll send someone ten bucks to put a large Apple logo on a car.
>>> If we do, I wonder if well see a redneck verison of Linux?
From Raleigh NC: Red Hat
my God, the guys in Redmond have gone insane. When you read that argument you feel like you're listening to fascist propaganda or something.
Whatever.
However, I like all Linux users I know, see Linux and Apple as part of one family: UNIX. So what if some Linux guy wants to put Linux paint on a car? Let him. Plenty of people show apple stickers. I do, as well. I have a folder with an apple sticker and a Linux sticker on it.
What? porn on the guys website? Yeah right.
The thing he is pointing out is that microsoft will stop at nothing to make people use their crappy software. And last time I checked, apple was competing with microsoft as well.
Quote from the Microsoft document:
"Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat."
That's an appalling mentality. It's open standards that enable communication and interoperability. They're what the internet was built on.
Recently there was a Web2.0 meeting with representatives from IE, Mozilla, and Opera:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2114880,00.asp
From what I've heard Chris Wilson who leads the IE team is a decent man and has also done a good job getting IE7 to be a lot more compliant to the W3C's standards than IE6 was.
But you just know that deliberate divergence from open standards is in Microsoft's DNA.
They're already trying to push another Microsoft-owned format on the web:
http://www.itworld.com/App/4128/070417silverlight/
People often say: Isn't Bill Gates clever to make money just off software? But that business model almost seems to necessitate this constant obnoxious war on interoperability. Apple is hugely profitable on a small share of the OS market, because it makes its money on the hardware. Microsoft, because it makes its money on software, has to sell so much more, has to try to capture almost all the market to stay profitable, and then has to try to lock people in by deliberately breaking standards.
I use Linux myself sometimes, although I prefer OS X, but Linux users can be offputting. There's this unhealthy ideological undercurrent with some of them - like the ones that vandalized this guy's site. Even this guy tends to go on about his "freedom". Really that's a bit obsessive. If you're a coder, I suppose it's nice to have source code, so you can modify software if you need to. But most people wouldn't or couldn't do that. With many Linux users I suspect the real attraction is that it is "free" in the other sense of the word, and they'd really rather not pay for work someone else has done.
But I guess "Linux freaks" are amusing rather than appalling. This Microsoft Evangelist talking about "Total Victory" through "embrace, extend, and extinguish" appals.
"I want me some a that Lai-Nucks now I seen on the teevee. Do ya drink it or do ya smoke it?"
"... 'cuuuz iiii'mm as freeeeeee... as biiiiiiird noooooow..."
sheezus. these lame frigtards. i tell ya...
what kills me is "mr. free& open" here has no comment section on this blog. so he can openly lobby for linux, so long as it's only his voice doing it, eh?
the nascar crowd deserves him.
and what really kills me is all the videos at his site. hellooooo? while you're all soooooo worried that microsquish will conquer and raze the planet, did you notice those very expensive videos where made by ibm and red hat, not exactly corporations known for expanding beyond their own self-interest?
frigtard. ass.
and to the frigtard who said using italics or other tags in the comment section is rude, i say: kiss my italics, beeeeeeooooootch!!!.
Faddah you have some major sand in your crack today, eh? Try having a green tea or a chai latte and finding your still center. Peace.
i just hate being told not to use italics!!!
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