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Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd"

From Desk Rabbit <me@example.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd"
Date 2016-10-26 14:53 +0100
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On 26/10/2016 13:32, chrisv wrote:
> Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks wrote:
> 
>> Ford engineers called MyFord Touch infotainment system, which is
>> powered by the Microsoft SYNC OS, "a polished turd."
>>
>> Ford announced it was dropping Microsoft as the platform supplier
>> for SYNC and moving to one based on QNX.
>>
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>>
>> Gotta love those highly educated and experienced computer
>> engineers.  They know shit when they see it, and Microsoft
>> is the shittiest of shit.
> 
> The fact that "professional" programmers can turn out crap has been
> proven time and time again (and is intuitively obvious).  Fat,
> bloated, disorganized conglomerates like Microshaft can be
> counted-upon to produce mediocrity, at best.  

And people buy it every - single - day
And people make a living using it every - single - day

> 
> The best work is always done by those who enjoy what they are doing,
> and want to create, or contribute-to, something special.  This is the
> kind of programmer who is drawn to the open-source ecosystem.
> 

And despite having been a free alternative for years, it still only
manages to be used on around 1% of all personal computers.

Now why would people prefer to pay for a product than install a free one?

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Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-25 16:23 +0000
  Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-25 16:23 +0000
    Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-25 17:19 -0400
  Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-26 07:32 -0500
    Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-26 14:53 +0100
      Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-26 15:08 +0000
      Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-26 09:56 -0700
        Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-26 12:35 -0500
    Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-29 09:20 -0400
      Re: Ford Calls the Microsoft OS a "Polished Turd" Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-29 13:39 +0000

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