Re: [News] Adobe and MSBBC Continue to Snub Microsoft's #1 Rival (GNU/Linux)

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:38:13 +0100, [H]omer wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Wii
>
> BBC to launch iPlayer for Amiga
> BBC to launch iPlayer for Sinclair Spectrum
> BBC to launch iPlayer for HP48GX calculator
> BBC to launch iPlayer for Tamagotchi
> BBC to launch iPlayer for Casio watches
> BBC to launch iPlayer for anything but Linux
>
> This is beyond bigotry, it's the most palpable anti-Linux conspiracy.
>
> Meanwhile:
>
> http://beebhack.bluwiki.com
>
> Screw you, MSBBC.


When the BBC measured Linux at 0.8 percent of desktop market share, what
possible reason could they come up with to support Linux, an OS that
virtually nobody is using?

Heck, even the iPhone is showing more browser hits than Linux is.

It must be sad to be using Linux, the OS the world is ignoring.



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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
<brick.n.straw@gmail.com>
wrote
on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:06:14 -0400
<ofbl71dh77k5$.g7w233fxr4ut$.dlg@40tude.net>:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:38:13 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Wii
>>
>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Amiga
>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Sinclair Spectrum
>> BBC to launch iPlayer for HP48GX calculator
>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Tamagotchi
>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Casio watches
>> BBC to launch iPlayer for anything but Linux
>>
>> This is beyond bigotry, it's the most palpable anti-Linux conspiracy.
>>
>> Meanwhile:
>>
>> http://beebhack.bluwiki.com
>>
>> Screw you, MSBBC.
>
>
> When the BBC measured Linux at 0.8 percent of desktop market share,

Oh good, it's gone up then. Didn't the Winvocates say it
was 0.25% at one point, and 0.6% very recently?

> what
> possible reason could they come up with to support Linux, an OS that
> virtually nobody is using?

What possible reason could they come up with to support
anything but Microsoft Windows? Even OSX only comes up
to maybe 8%, and they can run Windows within VmWare, for
additional cost. There's no reason, therefore, for the
Beeb to support anything but the Vole.

(Spot the Flaw.)

>
> Heck, even the iPhone is showing more browser hits than Linux is.
>
> It must be sad to be using Linux, the OS the world is ignoring.
>

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:09:54 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
> <brick.n.straw@gmail.com>
> wrote
> on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:06:14 -0400
> <ofbl71dh77k5$.g7w233fxr4ut$.dlg@40tude.net>:
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:38:13 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Wii
>>>
>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Amiga
>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Sinclair Spectrum
>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for HP48GX calculator
>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Tamagotchi
>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for Casio watches
>>> BBC to launch iPlayer for anything but Linux
>>>
>>> This is beyond bigotry, it's the most palpable anti-Linux conspiracy.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile:
>>>
>>> http://beebhack.bluwiki.com
>>>
>>> Screw you, MSBBC.
>>
>>
>> When the BBC measured Linux at 0.8 percent of desktop market share,
>
> Oh good, it's gone up then. Didn't the Winvocates say it
> was 0.25% at one point, and 0.6% very recently?

It was about 0.25 percent for years.
It made it to approximately 0.6 percent at some point.

The BBC measured it at about 0.8 percent which I think is high due mostly
in part to the Linux zealots slamming their site asking for player support.

Whatever the number is, it is less than 1 percent and has been this way for
over 10 years which is pathetic considering Linux is free.

What the Linux community should do is figure what it is about Linux that
people, average people, do not like and why these people run from Linux
even to the point of buying something like the Eee and wiping Linux and
installing Windows.

Why?

I sort of agree with Erik in that those Eee things and the clones are
really big Blackberrys.
Linux can easily handle the functions that the average person will use
something like the Eee for.

So why are so many people wiping Linux and installing Windows?

This is a perfect chance for the Linux community to study what people don't
like about Linux.

But no.
The Linux communities response is more distributions, more whining, more
denial and more confusion.

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A troll said:

> It

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* Moshe Goldfarb peremptorily fired off this memo:

> It was about 0.25 percent for years.
> It made it to approximately 0.6 percent at some point.
>
> The BBC measured it at about 0.8 percent which I think is high due mostly
> in part to the Linux zealots slamming their site asking for player support.
>
> Whatever the number is, it is less than 1 percent and has been this way for
> over 10 years which is pathetic considering Linux is free.
>
> What the Linux community should do is figure what it is about Linux that
> people, average people, do not like and why these people run from Linux
> even to the point of buying something like the Eee and wiping Linux and
> installing Windows.
>
> Why?
>
> I sort of agree with Erik in that those Eee things and the clones are
> really big Blackberrys.
> Linux can easily handle the functions that the average person will use
> something like the Eee for.
>
> So why are so many people wiping Linux and installing Windows?
>
> This is a perfect chance for the Linux community to study what people don't
> like about Linux.
>
> But no.
> The Linux communities response is more distributions, more whining, more
> denial and more confusion.

So said the troll who adopted the name of a concentration-camp survivor.

Linux is doing just fine. It isn't taking over the desktops, but it is
providing a large (very large) number of technical people and some
consumers with a reliable operating system, loaded in everything from
RJ-45-connector-sized computers, to PDAs and phones, to supercomputers.

The funny thing about Moshe's BS is this: Windows and Linux are far
more /alike/ than they are different, at least in ordinary servers and
desktop/laptop computers.

Linux isn't for everyone, but it could be. All it needs is a company
willing (and able) to go head-to-head against the 800-pound gorilla that
Microsoft has been for almost two decades.

Ironic, isn't it? The biggest competitor to Microsoft that remains
standing is.... Free Software. Microsoft killed off the rest of them.

--
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efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
-- Bill Gates

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:31:39 -0400, Linonut wrote:

> * Moshe Goldfarb peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> It was about 0.25 percent for years.
>> It made it to approximately 0.6 percent at some point.
>>
>> The BBC measured it at about 0.8 percent which I think is high due mostly
>> in part to the Linux zealots slamming their site asking for player support.
>>
>> Whatever the number is, it is less than 1 percent and has been this way for
>> over 10 years which is pathetic considering Linux is free.
>>
>> What the Linux community should do is figure what it is about Linux that
>> people, average people, do not like and why these people run from Linux
>> even to the point of buying something like the Eee and wiping Linux and
>> installing Windows.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> I sort of agree with Erik in that those Eee things and the clones are
>> really big Blackberrys.
>> Linux can easily handle the functions that the average person will use
>> something like the Eee for.
>>
>> So why are so many people wiping Linux and installing Windows?
>>
>> This is a perfect chance for the Linux community to study what people don't
>> like about Linux.
>>
>> But no.
>> The Linux communities response is more distributions, more whining, more
>> denial and more confusion.
>
> So said the troll who adopted the name of a concentration-camp survivor.

Grow up already, will you?

> Linux is doing just fine. It isn't taking over the desktops, but it is
> providing a large (very large) number of technical people and some
> consumers with a reliable operating system, loaded in everything from
> RJ-45-connector-sized computers, to PDAs and phones, to supercomputers.

Notice the switch off the desktop to something that most people agree Linux
is doing good at, IOW embedded devices and servers.
A Classic Linux zealot tactic.

> The funny thing about Moshe's BS is this: Windows and Linux are far
> more /alike/ than they are different, at least in ordinary servers and
> desktop/laptop computers.

So why don't people choose the free one?

iPod and Sandisk are very much alike and if SanDisk offered a free player
how long do you think iPod would be sold?

Yet Linux is free all the time and people would rather pay a lot of money
for Windows and Windows applications than use Linux.

What about Openoffice?

It runs under Windows as well.

Why are people willing to pony up bucks for MSOffice rather than use the
free OpenOffice?

I don't buy the argument that OpenOffice is not known because it's been
reviewed in many PCRag mags so people do know about it.


> Linux isn't for everyone, but it could be. All it needs is a company
> willing (and able) to go head-to-head against the 800-pound gorilla that
> Microsoft has been for almost two decades.

No, Linux needs to figure out why people would rather pay for software than
use free Linux.
That's what Linux needs to do.

> Ironic, isn't it? The biggest competitor to Microsoft that remains
> standing is.... Free Software. Microsoft killed off the rest of them.

Yea, and still at less than 1 percent after 10 or more years.
What does that say?

It's says Linux can't be given away and that people just don't like desktop
Linux.


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In article <qzqMj.34535$Er2.33059@bignews6.bellsouth.net>,
Linonut <linonut@bollsouth.nut> wrote:
> Ironic, isn't it? The biggest competitor to Microsoft that remains
> standing is.... Free Software. Microsoft killed off the rest of them.

I seem to have missed the death of Apple...


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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:27:01 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:

> In article <qzqMj.34535$Er2.33059@bignews6.bellsouth.net>,
> Linonut <linonut@bollsouth.nut> wrote:
>> Ironic, isn't it? The biggest competitor to Microsoft that remains
>> standing is.... Free Software. Microsoft killed off the rest of them.
>
> I seem to have missed the death of Apple...

It's printed right next to Microsoft in this weeks COLA obituary column.

These people are absolutely stark raving mad.


--
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http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:

> In article <qzqMj.34535$Er2.33059@bignews6.bellsouth.net>,
> Linonut <linonut@bollsouth.nut> wrote:
>> Ironic, isn't it? The biggest competitor to Microsoft that remains
>> standing is.... Free Software. Microsoft killed off the rest of them.
>
> I seem to have missed the death of Apple...

Oh, Microsoft came close to killing off Apple, with help from Jobs and the
Pepsi dude that replaced him.

But thanks for the reminder that there is a commercial computer company
not plugging Windows that has managed to survive and, lately, thrive
while competing against Microsoft.

Just remember that Apple got some help from Free Software.

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Linonut <linonut@bollsouth.nut> wrote in
news:3dyMj.21552$Q52.14952@bignews9.bellsouth.net:

>> I seem to have missed the death of Apple...
>
> Oh, Microsoft came close to killing off Apple, with help from Jobs and
> the Pepsi dude that replaced him.
>
> But thanks for the reminder that there is a commercial computer
> company not plugging Windows that has managed to survive and, lately,
> thrive while competing against Microsoft.
>
> Just remember that Apple got some help from Free Software.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it MS that 'saved' Apple years ago by
giving money...don't know if it was an investment, or loan, or whatever,
just that it did come from MS.