Well, say whatever you wish but you should know that you and your friends
are doing a "negative" campaign here. I don't remember when was the last
time that a negative campaign actually worked.
But I offer you and your friends an opportunity. The following is a
comment By WALTER S. MOSSBERG, Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2007.
Q: You often mention the Macintosh as an alternative to Windows, why don't
you recommend the Linux operating system?
A: I aim my columns at mainstream users doing typical tasks who have little
or no technical knowledge, no help from experts, and no appetite for
becoming techies. These folks want the computer to do things for them. They
don't want to have to do much, if any, configuring of, or maintaining of,
their computers. They have no patience for geeky procedures. For instance,
when they buy a peripheral device, they expect to plug it in and find that
it works, often without even installing the CD from the box. I don't believe
Linux is yet simple enough and automatic enough and nontechnical enough for
these mainstream users. So I don't recommend it. I firmly believe that the
Macintosh does meet these criteria, and so I consider it the only practical
alternative to Windows for mainstream, nontechie users.
His comments are viewed and taken by a large number of executives around the
world and if you
guys can convince him, you would have a better chance.
His email address:
mossberg@wsj.com
So any of you are brave enough, go troll him.
End of my conversation with anyone associated with Linux advocacy.
"Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
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> xfile wrote:
>>> And always will be. I see you don't understand what Open Source means
>>> and you think that something only has value when you pay for it. How
>>> much do you pay your wife for sex or is free OK? Would paying her money
>>> make sex better?
>>
>> Price doesn't mean just the purchase price. Easily find support
>> professionals, hardware and software compatibility issues, and training,
>> and migration are also part of prices, and yes, they are part of problems
>> for Vista as well, but those are also prices to be included sooner or
>> later.
>
> So far, I have paid NO money for Ubuntu and it runs great.
>
>>
>> So people don't just think about purchase price and those who think only
>> about purchase price is silly and naive, the least to say.
>
> See above.
>
>>
>> And please don't use women or wife or sex as an example.
>
> I'll use any example my little hearts desires to use.
>
> But just in case
>> you want to know, I do pay her with all my love to have sex with her and
>> that's why we call it - making love.
>
> You consider love to be money? How crass can you get?
>>
>> Yes, we have to pay one way or the other.
>>
>>> Face it, you're betting on a bloated, DRN riddled, virus prone, anti
>>> piracy flawed programs prone, malware prone OS and you're jealous that
>>> someone might get something better for free. Get over it and go Open
>>> Source and see what you've been missing.
>>
>> Yes, those are problems. Guess what, many are thinking Apple not Linux
>> for alternatives. Why? Vista's UI is terrible, Apple is questionable
>> depending on one's previous experience, and Linux has literally no UI
>> concept.
>
> False. I use the GUI for almost everything in Ubuntu. You obviously don't
> know what you're talking about. Beryl makes Aero look like an amateur did
> it.
>
>>
>> So if you must, please at least come up some real life benefits for
>> switching over. All of the above are not even close to benefits.
>
> When the person I am explaining it to is open to change, there are no
> problems in their understanding. You, apparently, do have problems with
> that.
>
> Alias
>>
>>
>> "Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
>> news:%23t$sMyGyHHA.4300@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Mike wrote:
>>>> In article <#LcfWQFyHHA.5024@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,
>>>> Alias <aka@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The difference this time is that there are viable alternatives in Open
>>>>> Source when there wasn't for XP and all previous Windows releases.
>>>> Sure. The Open Source alternatives are so "viable" that they are
>>>> STILL given away
>>> And always will be. I see you don't understand what Open Source means
>>> and you think that something only has value when you pay for it. How
>>> much do you pay your wife for sex or is free OK? Would paying her money
>>> make sex better?
>>>
>>>> and they are STILL going nowhere on the desktop.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>> False. Millions of people are now enjoying Linux and millions more,
>>> thanks to Vista's intrusive "anti piracy" programs and the improvement
>>> of Linux for the desktop, will get it. The Linux newsgroups are filled
>>> with posts saying "I'm a newbie".
>>>
>>> Face it, you're betting on a bloated, DRN riddled, virus prone, anti
>>> piracy flawed programs prone, malware prone OS and you're jealous that
>>> someone might get something better for free. Get over it and go Open
>>> Source and see what you've been missing.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>