Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: William Poaster Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:43:30 +0100 Organization: Llareggub Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2v7d88-pp9.ln1@linuxnetwork.alpha.org> References: <4db359ba$1@news.x-privat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-13 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hyUu8+0AHbTQypWZwGYQJQfnrflhWwiZZ+CPPRy7s16GfIKiIZ X-Orig-Path: linuxnetwork.alpha.org!news Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Uw8B8eiwKj7aelTvsG9m8Mqd+E= User-Agent: XPN/1.2.6 (Street Spirit ; Linux) X-Desktop: KDE 4.6.0 X-COLA-Trolls: Trolls listed in http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ ignored. Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.advocacy:18063 RonB wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:20:55 +0000, RonB wrote: > >> Same old pipe dream for the WinTrolls. They think of "Desktop Linux" as >> a single "product" that has to please stockholders quarter by quarter. >> Unfortunately, for them, Linux distributions are put together by a whole >> lot of volunteers who aren't about to quit releasing new versions of >> their distributions just because some toady for Microsoft writes a >> negative article or two. There's nobody for Gates to buy out or threaten >> into extinction. >> >> Learn to live it, WinTrolls, Desktop Linux isn't going anywhere. >> Meanwhile embedded Linux, Linux on servers and mobile Linux are eating >> Microsoft's lunch. You'll have to learn to live with that also. > > And, again, if Desktop Linux is so "inconsequential" why do WinTrolls rail > on about it 24/7 in a Linux Advocacy Newsgroup? Indeed, & why was M$ so worried about "linux having only 1% market share" that they hired an Open Source Desktop Strategy Czar ("a strong team member to lead Microsoft’s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.”) Are the wintrolls so busy chanting their "1%" mantra (in the vain hope that it's true) that they don't read the news? -- A)bort, R)etry, I)nfluence with large hammer. "Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods." -- Former White House adviser Richard A. Clarke --