Windows Vista Why one should choose Linux over Vista

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Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Alias wrote:

> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:g6ngqo$rqf$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>>
>>> uwe wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm a software developer writing XP/Vista applications for the
>>>> consumer market. If I put a year's worth of work into an
>>>> application, I have a potential market of about 90% of desktops
>>>> worldwide at best. Now, if I would waste my time to write desktop
>>>> (!) applications for LINUX, how many potential customers worldwide,
>>>> who are actually willing to pay for my work, would I have?
>>>> Exactly... ;-) And BTW: I've seen those hardcore LINUX fans howling
>>>> when Borland released Kylix a few years ago; complaining that a
>>>> commercial product should not attempt to break into the LINUX world.
>>>> Big chance missed, folks.
>>>>
>>>> Uwe
>>>
>>> So don't use Linux and keep writing for the sinking Microsoft ship.
>>> It's your future. Saddle makers, blacksmiths, et al weren't too happy
>>> about the advent of the car either.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>>
>> As much as you Hate Microsoft, Microsoft will be around longer than
>> you or I. Get use to it.
>>
>
> That's what everyone once said about Enron.

You just *have* to keep reminding us of your inability to use any
meaningful logic and your impaired reading comprehension.
How is your GED coming along?

I don't hate MS.

Liar! Of course you do.

I feel
> sorry for those people like Ewe...

Ewe? What is her name? Is she your favorite?

who have their entire futures tied up to
> a sinking ship.

Your ship sank a long time ago loser!

 

[Alias]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Chris S. wrote:
>
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g6nhsb$64s$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> uwe wrote:
>>>> So don't use Linux and keep writing for the sinking Microsoft ship.
>>>
>>> Well, at least I (and millions of other developers) can make a decent
>>> living
>>> out of it. What about you?
>>>
>>> Uwe
>>>
>>
>> One of my businesses is computer repair. We can't keep up with the
>> work of removing viruses and other malware that Windows boxes get. Of
>> course, being as we have integrity, we recommend to these hapless
>> Windows users that they switch to Ubuntu and those who have are quite
>> pleased.
>>
>> Alias
>
> I hope your clients don't have router problems....
>
> Chris
>

Like what, pray tell?

Alias

 

[Mrs. Ringmaster]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Ringmaster wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:27:51 -0700, "uwe" <forspammers@no.ne> wrote:
>
>> I'm a software developer writing XP/Vista applications for the consumer
>> market. If I put a year's worth of work into an application, I have a
>> potential market of about 90% of desktops worldwide at best. Now, if I would
>> waste my time to write desktop (!) applications for LINUX, how many
>> potential customers worldwide, who are actually willing to pay for my work,
>> would I have? Exactly... ;-) And BTW: I've seen those hardcore LINUX fans
>> howling when Borland released Kylix a few years ago; complaining that a
>> commercial product should not attempt to break into the LINUX world. Big
>> chance missed, folks.
>>
>> Uwe
>
> They told Columbus the world was flat and if he went on his historic
> voyage he would sail off the end of the earth or be eaten by sea
> monsters.
>
> They laughed at the Wright Brothers and said if man was meant to fly
> he would have been born with wings.
>
> When railroads first came on the scene respected doctors said it was
> just too dangerous to travel fasted that 30 mile per hour.
>
> Many states enacted silly laws like for example if you drove one of
> the new fangled inventions called a automobile at night somebody had
> to walk 20 paces in front of it holding a lantern.
>
> So-called "science" once stated the sun and all the stars and planets
> revolved around the earth and the earth was the center of the
> universe.
>
> They laughed at Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell for inventing the
> electric light and telephone. Where would the world be today without
> either of these inventions so many devices of today are based on?
>
> Less than 30 years ago they said personal computers were just a
> passing fad.
>
> The inventor of the photocopy machine spent years trying to get just
> about every major corporation there was to provide start up money for
> his invention. They all said no, who would want to make copies of
> documents with a machine, where we already have carbon paper?
>
> Had enough?
>
> Windows is popular because once upon a time it was either that or get
> a Mac. Times change. If people limit their choices, then their choices
> will always be limited. Linux isn't for everybody. Then again Windows
> shouldn't have to be either. If nobody develops for Linux, then it
> never will take off.
>
> I feel like a hostage to Microsoft. I feel forced to used Windows. It
> isn't that I want to, rather some of the applications I use only run
> under Windows and nothing as yet works as well under Linux that fill
> my needs. Mac isn't a choice for me, I feel and have always felt it
> was over priced and too restrictive.
>
> If you as a developer aren't interested in the huge audience that
> would dump Windows in a heart beat if something better came along,
> sooner or later somebody else will take the gamble. Mankind lurches
> forward on dreamers and visionaries. I named a few. I guess you're not
> one of them. It's easy to be a follower. Being a leader takes smarts,
> and guts and yes, some luck.

My hubby Ringmaster would like to be a leader, but he doesn't have the
smarts, guts or luck to be one. He also does not play nice with others.
He can be so dog gone mean and ugly at times!

 

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Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Alias wrote:

> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>
>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:g6nhsb$64s$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>>
>>> uwe wrote:
>>>
>>>>> So don't use Linux and keep writing for the sinking Microsoft ship.
>>>>
>>>> Well, at least I (and millions of other developers) can make a
>>>> decent living
>>>> out of it. What about you?
>>>>
>>>> Uwe
>>>>
>>> One of my businesses is computer repair. We can't keep up with the
>>> work of removing viruses and other malware that Windows boxes get. Of
>>> course, being as we have integrity, we recommend to these hapless
>>> Windows users that they switch to Ubuntu and those who have are quite
>>> pleased.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>>
>> So Microsoft does generate business for you. You should be very happy
>> with that. So there isn't one person who moved to Ubuntu/Linux who
>> was sorry?
>>
>>
>
> We get home users who don't need complicated Office, Auto CAD, etc.
> programs so, yes, they are.
>
> MS doesn't generate the work; the virus and malware writers do
>
> Alias

Ahhh...this is where you lie and cheat (you are a thief!) unsuspecting,
uninformed computer users. You tell them they have an infected box when
they only have a bunch of "cookies", that some malware wrongly flags as
"infected". You then sell them free software. Shame on you! I hope the
authorities catch your thieving ass really soon.

 

[uwe]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

> If you as a developer aren't interested in the huge audience that would
> dump Windows in a heart beat if something better came along, sooner or
> later somebody else will take the gamble.

Read my post again. When Borland came out with Kylix, the whole Delphi
community was excited that it was now possible to write applications for
Linux from within their own IDE. The reaction on the "other side of the
table": a big uproar in the Linux world that a profit-orientated company
would dare to attempt to earn money in their "free" little habitat. Instead
of cheering that their OS was now supported by a big compiler manufacturer,
they chose to whine and whinge that their open source model was at risk to
be taken over by profiteers. Are those the dreamers and visionaries you were
talking about?

Uwe

 

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Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Alias wrote:

> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>
>> "uwe" <forspammers@no.ne> wrote in message
>> news:O$8NvqZ8IHA.356@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>> So don't use Linux and keep writing for the sinking Microsoft ship.
>>>
>>> Well, at least I (and millions of other developers) can make a decent
>>> living
>>> out of it. What about you?
>>>
>>> Uwe
>>>
>>
>> I'm a developer and make a decent living with Microsoft products.
>> Microsoft won't be going away anytime soon.
>>
>
> At least that's what you hope.

No, that is what you hope for, that MS will disappear in the near future.
Hold your breath ok?
That way you'll quickly disappear.

 

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Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Kicking Albright wrote:

> Ringmaster wrote:
>
>>
>> Why are you here Frank?
>
>
> Why are you here Albright other than to chase Frank 17.5 out of 18 hours
> a day?

I do own that losers ass!

 

[Kicking Albright]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Ringmaster wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:27:51 -0700, "uwe" <forspammers@no.ne> wrote:
>
>> I'm a software developer writing XP/Vista applications for the consumer
>> market. If I put a year's worth of work into an application, I have a
>> potential market of about 90% of desktops worldwide at best. Now, if I would
>> waste my time to write desktop (!) applications for LINUX, how many
>> potential customers worldwide, who are actually willing to pay for my work,
>> would I have? Exactly... ;-) And BTW: I've seen those hardcore LINUX fans
>> howling when Borland released Kylix a few years ago; complaining that a
>> commercial product should not attempt to break into the LINUX world. Big
>> chance missed, folks.
>>

Look uwe, I am software developer too on the MS platform. You see that's
the problem with Linux. It has no commercial backing to speak of. It's
not a cash cow like MS or even IBM back in the day on the mainframes.
Without any commercial incentives by a commercial vendor in the business
of making money on products sold, Linux is going no where in the
business or home user sectors. Novell tried but really has made nothing
happen.

Linux has been setting at 1% market share for all the different flavors
of a Linux desktop O/S solution for too many years to even count anymore.

Yes, you can dream, but in the meantime, money talks and BS walks. I
know that you know what side of the bread has the butter.

Ringmaster is past 60 some years old and he in not going to see Linux or
Mac or anything else pass MS in his lifetime.

 

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Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Alias wrote:

> fb wrote:
>
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>> Ringmaster wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> fb wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> %Alias# wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not spam but a post that's completely within MS guidelines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>>>> Who exactly do you think you're fooling?
>>>>>> Your post was not within MS Vista general guidelines. You know it
>>>>>> and everyone in here knows it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you just *have* to remind us how impaired your sense of logic
>>>>> and reading comprehension skills are?
>>>>>
>>>>>> You're sick in the head.
>>>>>> No wonder you've been married 4 times.
>>>>>> You are a loser!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am still married for 23 years now, quite happily I might add. Oops.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is your wife aware of your silly online activities? Does she know
>>>> just how stupid you appear in newsgroups?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As a matter of fact, my wife knows everything about me. She knows
>>> I have a craving for personal abusive and how much I enjoy impressing
>>> the whole world wide web with my posts. She also knows how frustrated
>>> I am with using Linux which pretty much sums up my miserable life.
>>
>>
>> Hahaha...she's not near as stupid as you are huh?
>
>
> Speaking of stupid, you're too stupid to realize I didn't write that.
>
> Alias

Speaking of stupid, you failed to realize I knew that, stupid!

 

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Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Alias wrote:

> fb wrote:
>
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>> Ringmaster wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> fb wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> %Alias# wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's not spam but a post that's completely within MS guidelines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>>>> Who exactly do you think you're fooling?
>>>>>> Your post was not within MS Vista general guidelines. You know it
>>>>>> and everyone in here knows it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you just *have* to remind us how impaired your sense of logic
>>>>> and reading comprehension skills are?
>>>>>
>>>>>> You're sick in the head.
>>>>>> No wonder you've been married 4 times.
>>>>>> You are a loser!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am still married for 23 years now, quite happily I might add. Oops.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is your wife aware of your silly online activities?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You mean like using someone else's nick and pretending to be him like
>>> you do?
>>>
>>>> Does she know
>>>> just how stupid you appear in newsgroups?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The fact that you think my posts are stupid reflects more on you than
>>> me, chum.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>>
>> Getting your ass kicked? Again? As usual?
>
>
> Not at all.

Sure you are.
>
>> Best you get lost to avoid further embarrassment.
>
>
> LOL! Look who's talking!

I'm not the one getting my ass kicked. That would be you. I'm the one
doing the kicking stupid!

 

[Alias]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Bill Yanaire wrote:
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g6nh13$tos$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:g6ngqo$rqf$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>>>> uwe wrote:
>>>>> I'm a software developer writing XP/Vista applications for the consumer
>>>>> market. If I put a year's worth of work into an application, I have a
>>>>> potential market of about 90% of desktops worldwide at best. Now, if I
>>>>> would waste my time to write desktop (!) applications for LINUX, how
>>>>> many potential customers worldwide, who are actually willing to pay for
>>>>> my work, would I have? Exactly... ;-) And BTW: I've seen those
>>>>> hardcore LINUX fans howling when Borland released Kylix a few years
>>>>> ago; complaining that a commercial product should not attempt to break
>>>>> into the LINUX world. Big chance missed, folks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Uwe
>>>> So don't use Linux and keep writing for the sinking Microsoft ship. It's
>>>> your future. Saddle makers, blacksmiths, et al weren't too happy about
>>>> the advent of the car either.
>>>>
>>>> Alias
>>> As much as you Hate Microsoft, Microsoft will be around longer than you
>>> or I. Get use to it.
>> That's what everyone once said about Enron. I don't hate MS. I feel sorry
>> for those people like Ewe who have their entire futures tied up to a
>> sinking ship.
>>
>> Alias
>
> That might be true but again, I don't think an open source solution will
> replace Microsoft within the next 10 years. MS is entrenched in the
> business world and the business world won't be embracing Linux anytime soon.
> I am sure MS will lose some home users but the majority will be entact for
> quite awhile. Enron is different.
>
>
>

You're absolutely right! I have an irate customer that came by
yesterday and demanded that I remove Ubuntu from his computer
and reinstall Windows. He told me I better have it done by tomorrow
afternoon or he will personally hang me by my nuts!

 

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Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Ringmaster wrote:

....I feel like a hostage to Microsoft.

No, it's your own arrogant stupidity that is keeping you hostage. You
are a victim of your own devices.

I feel forced to used Windows.

Again, that is your fault and a lamers excuse.

It
> isn't that I want to, rather some of the applications I use only run
> under Windows and nothing as yet works as well under Linux that fill
> my needs. Mac isn't a choice for me, I feel and have always felt it
> was over priced and too restrictive.

I love it when cheap fools like you shoot themselves in the foot then
complain about being hobbled.
>
> If you as a developer aren't interested in the huge audience that
> would dump Windows in a heart beat if something better came along,...

Something else better? How about you're too incompetent to use what is
available let along something new.

> sooner or later somebody else will take the gamble.

Gamble? Sorry pal, but you're too far gone to see any reality.

Mankind lurches
> forward on dreamers and visionaries. I named a few.

Yeah, but you left out the Bill Gates of the world. Why? Oh, you hate
him and still need to blame your ineptness and incompetence on him don't
you.
You can't deal with that little grain of truth can you?

I guess you're not one of them. It's easy to be a follower. Being a
leader takes smarts,
> and guts and yes, some luck.

Way to go mr gotemeyer! Insult the op to mask your frustration with your
own failures.
Figures.
You are a such a fukkin loser!

 

[Mrs. Ringmaster]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

fb wrote:
> Kicking Albright wrote:
>
>> Ringmaster wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Why are you here Frank?
>>
>>
>> Why are you here Albright other than to chase Frank 17.5 out of 18
>> hours a day?
>
> I do own that losers ass!

Frank, if you took one look at Ringmaster's A$$, trust me, you would not
want to "own it".

 

[Ringmaster]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:02:28 -0700, fb <fab@nospamm.net> wrote:

>Ringmaster wrote:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Shame you lack the basic intelligence to actually post something of
>value instead of your usual insults and demeaning rants.

Proof Frank is only some irrational idiot mindlessly babbling the same
insults over and over and never, not even once realizing HE is the one
causing most of the disruptions here.

You're sick Frank. Get the help you desperately need.

 

[Ringmaster]

Re: alias can't afford Vista so he spams this ng...Loser!

Re: alias can't afford Vista so he spams this ng...Loser!

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:05:01 -0700, fb <fab@nospamm.net> wrote:

>Alias wrote:
>
>> fb wrote:
>>
>>> %Alias# wrote:
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> What an arrogrant POS lying linux troll you are. The sign says "Vista
>>> general" with no mention of linux and that really fries up your stupid
>>> lying linux ass doesn't it.
>>> The post was completely off topic and not within MS guidelines.
>>> Get lost troll.
>>
>>
>> Do you just *have* to remind us how impaired your sense of logic and
>> reading comprehension skills are?
>
>You are obviously and uneducated weak little POS for a human being.
>You have a warped sense of logic and an impaired reading comprehension.

Actually the uneducated one is you as your own sloppy spelling and
grammar keep proving.

For example Frank grammar ===> "You are obviously and uneducated..."

 

[Mrs. Ringmaster]

Re: alias can't afford Vista so he spams this ng...Loser!

Re: alias can't afford Vista so he spams this ng...Loser!

Ringmaster wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:05:01 -0700, fb <fab@nospamm.net> wrote:
>
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>> fb wrote:
>>>
>>>> %Alias# wrote:
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> What an arrogrant POS lying linux troll you are. The sign says "Vista
>>>> general" with no mention of linux and that really fries up your stupid
>>>> lying linux ass doesn't it.
>>>> The post was completely off topic and not within MS guidelines.
>>>> Get lost troll.
>>>
>>> Do you just *have* to remind us how impaired your sense of logic and
>>> reading comprehension skills are?
>> You are obviously and uneducated weak little POS for a human being.
>> You have a warped sense of logic and an impaired reading comprehension.
>
> Actually the uneducated one is you as your own sloppy spelling and
> grammar keep proving.
>
> For example Frank grammar ===> "You are obviously and uneducated..."

It's not nice to point your finger at others. Remember, your other
four fingers are point right back at you.

 

[Mrs. Ringmaster]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

Ringmaster wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:02:28 -0700, fb <fab@nospamm.net> wrote:
>
>> Ringmaster wrote:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Shame you lack the basic intelligence to actually post something of
>> value instead of your usual insults and demeaning rants.
>
> Proof Frank is only some irrational idiot mindlessly babbling the same
> insults over and over and never, not even once realizing HE is the one
> causing most of the disruptions here.
>
> You're sick Frank. Get the help you desperately need.

As my hubby Ringmaster often says, 'misery loves company'.
Maybe sometime in the near future Frank and my Ringmaster will
share the same hospital room and bed pan....wishful thinking!

 

[Ringmaster]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:43:55 -0400, Kicking Albright
<Albright@Kicking.com> wrote:

>Ringmaster wrote:
>>
>> Why are you here Frank?
>
>Why are you here Albright other than to chase Frank 17.5 out of 18 hours
>a day?

Its the other way around douche bag. The idiot Frank simply can't
pass up any post made by me or Alias and the fool needs to repeat the
same tired drivel he always does.

If you work at it, you can be just as big an idiot as Frank some day!

 

[Ringmaster]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:47:08 -0400, Kicking Albright
<Albright@Kicking.com> wrote:

>Ringmaster wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:28 -0400, Kicking Albright
>> <Albright@Kicking.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ringmaster wrote:
>>>> No wonder you constantly get laughed at and end up in most people's
>>>> kill files.
>>> And you're not there in people's kill files no matter what name you post
>>> under? You killed *Adam Albright* to the point that you cannot even post
>>> under the name anymore.
>>
>> You're retarded if you actually think that.
>
>Then be the tough old man you try to act like and use Adam Albright, be
>a man Albright be the tough old man that you claim to be.

You're trying to tell me what name I can post under now? I used Adam
Albright when I posted through Usenetserver. Since I don't use that
news server anymore I changed the name I post under. Big deal. Funny
it gets some no brains idiot like you shorts all bunched up. Deal with
it fool.

 

[Ringmaster]

Re: Why one should choose Linux over Vista

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:19:17 -0400, Kicking Albright
<Albright@Kicking.com> wrote:

>Ringmaster wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:27:51 -0700, "uwe" <forspammers@no.ne> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a software developer writing XP/Vista applications for the consumer
>>> market. If I put a year's worth of work into an application, I have a
>>> potential market of about 90% of desktops worldwide at best. Now, if I would
>>> waste my time to write desktop (!) applications for LINUX, how many
>>> potential customers worldwide, who are actually willing to pay for my work,
>>> would I have? Exactly... ;-) And BTW: I've seen those hardcore LINUX fans
>>> howling when Borland released Kylix a few years ago; complaining that a
>>> commercial product should not attempt to break into the LINUX world. Big
>>> chance missed, folks.
>>>
>
>Look uwe, I am software developer too on the MS platform.

You and over a million others. Big deal. So what. I don't even
consider jerks like you programmers. When I was doing some custom
programming for business applications for my employers over 20 years
ago I used mostly Assembly... far over your head little boy.

Any idiot can "program" with a graphical interface when you point,
click, drag and move the mouse around and pick things off a menu. No
brains required. On the other hand programming is assembly language at
the machine level requires you know how to think logically. Far beyond
your puny abilities obviously as you keep proving.