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Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers

From Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers
Date 2011-04-24 17:36 -0600
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on 4/24/2011, William Poaster supposed :
> 7 wrote:
>
>> William Poaster wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> The simplest of all reason is the most plausible.
>> 
>> They just don't know how to count Linux.
>> 
>> If they did, then they would be able to put that into
>> their SEC filing. 
>
> In their SEC filing M$ (guess)estimates Linux users at 10-12% & possibly
> as much as 14%, & warns that this can affect their business & drop in
> revenue.
>

LOL.. you got that little lie from Rex.

-- 
Tom Shelton

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The iPad already used more than Linux computers Clog_-_wog (®) <clog_-_wog@anonimous.eu> - 2011-04-23 21:07 +0200
  Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 21:24 +0200
    Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-23 16:11 -0400
      Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers An Old Friend <an.old@friend.com.invalid> - 2011-04-24 00:59 +0100
        Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 23:20 +0000
          Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 23:23 +0000
            Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2011-04-24 10:43 +0100
              Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2011-04-24 20:38 +0100
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2011-04-24 23:06 +0100
                Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchmail.com> - 2011-04-24 19:17 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2011-04-24 20:48 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchmail.com> - 2011-04-24 21:19 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass Chris <chrisdhaag@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-25 08:04 +0000
                Re: Another lying piece of shit anti-linux troll Zeke froths. William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2011-04-25 10:37 +0100
                Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchmail.com> - 2011-04-25 07:55 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-25 08:37 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit anti-linux troll Zeke froths. flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-25 08:28 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass Chris <chrisdhaag@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-25 08:05 +0000
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchmail.com> - 2011-04-25 07:58 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-25 08:27 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchmail.com> - 2011-04-25 10:00 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-25 09:07 -0500
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass "caged steel" <CS@nosuchmail.com> - 2011-04-25 10:24 -0400
                Re: Another lying piece of shit "advocate" Dumb Willy pulls bullshit claims out of his ass Big Steel <Steel98@steel98.com> - 2011-04-25 11:01 -0400
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2011-04-25 00:28 +0100
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2011-04-25 10:55 +0100
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2011-04-25 09:14 -0400
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2011-04-24 17:36 -0600
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> - 2011-04-25 22:23 +0200
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2011-04-24 20:32 -0400
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2011-04-24 20:48 -0400
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-24 21:21 -0400
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> - 2011-04-25 22:37 +0200
                Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-25 22:53 -0400
          Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2011-04-23 22:13 -0700
            Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-24 01:21 -0400
    Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-23 23:58 +0100
      Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2011-04-24 00:58 +0200
        Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-24 23:24 +0100
          Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2011-04-24 23:40 +0100
      Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2011-04-23 22:21 -0400
  Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2011-04-23 22:01 +0100
    Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2011-04-23 17:18 -0400
      Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-23 22:05 -0400
  Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-23 23:23 +0100
    Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2011-04-23 22:17 -0400
      Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> - 2011-04-24 22:00 +0200
        Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-04-24 16:10 -0400
        Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2011-04-24 19:40 -0400
          Re: The iPad already used more than Linux computers Clog_-_wog (®) <clog_-_wog@anonimous.eu> - 2011-04-25 12:06 +0200

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