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 In an interview at AlwaysOn, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates justly defends his products from it's evil open-source competitors. Gates says:
"...when [people] want to do a file server, they have to buy or install a ton of other software on top of Linux. And against that, we are way cheaper, way simpler, with one unified architecture that exists throughout the computing environment.
Amen. Preach on!
"So there are very few cases where what you add on doesn’t make Linux a significantly more expensive solution. But we’re in the Windows business to offer the best value." (The emphasis is ours)
Wow. Never have truer words been spoken. Those guys who own Linux are just charging way too much. Please, Microsoft, free me from the chains of uh ... open-source.
Speaking on the subject of viruses, of which we know Linux has so many, Gates elaborates:
"No one else stops propagation, but we have to. It’s our fault -- a faux pas -- that we didn’t make it clear to customers how to prevent propagation. And that is something that we are going to provide to customers. We are going to give them free tools to do that."
Excellent! Microsoft is giving free tools to help stop viruses that Microsoft's sloppy programming allows! With Linux you have to pay for all your virus protection, but Microsoft is going to give it to us for free! What great guys they are.
Right on Bill!
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December 3 2003, 8:54 AM EDT, by
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| rlhamon |
12/3/03, 1:44 PM EDT |
That way I don't have to deal with the thousands and thousands of virus that is unleashed on Open Source Systems each week.
Down with this over price Open Source crap and to hell the GNU that's where the majority of the profits go to.
Thanks Bill I almost bought into the Open Source crap and now I'm glad I didn't phew it could of cost me a fortune to do that.
Bill is giving me free Anti-Virus to protect my computer from those viruses that Open Source causes so my Windows will run smoothly. Norton is making a lot of money from those Linux guy's...hahaahahahhahahhah muhahaha
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| iKen |
12/3/03, 2:12 PM EDT |
Let's see here
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Windows
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Linux
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| Hardware Cost |
$699
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$699
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| Software Cost |
$3,999
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FREE
</ TD>
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| Total Cost |
$4,698
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$699
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Not having to worry about viruses; priceless
Yep, windows is definitely cheaper.
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| Jonahan |
12/3/03, 3:41 PM EDT |
Whoooa ... nice embedding of HTML into the comment there, iKen, I'm seriously impressed! (Ok, I'm easily amused when it comes to such things ;)
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| Jonathan |
12/3/03, 4:15 PM EDT |
Oxymoron: Norton AntiVirus for Mac
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| rlhamon |
12/3/03, 4:42 PM EDT |
Yea iKen take it easy on use regular poster with that fancy HTML coding stuff. Next your be a great Windows user and then won't talk to us.......
ok sorry about the Windows user comment I did go to far there... My Bad!!
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| Giaguara |
12/3/03, 4:48 PM EDT |
yea of cos winzoz is cheaper .. m$ says so ..
software for linux: 0 $. not worrying for m$ compatible viruses etc: priceless. true :)
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| stickman67 |
12/3/03, 5:07 PM EDT |
There's something infinitely sad about this: More than half the people who read Bill's statement are going to believe it without question. Then they're going to spend hours, days, weeks, months and years perfecting their half-arsed justifications of what is, even to a semi-educated reindeer-herd with his head in a bucket of frozen slop in the Arctic tundra, a total load of sh*te. And the endless cycle of obfuscation and willy-pulling goes on ...
*Sob!*
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| iKen |
12/3/03, 8:10 PM EDT |
"Whoooa ... nice embedding of HTML into the comment there, iKen, I'm seriously impressed!"
Thanks, I figured the best way to get my point across was with a table. :)
"ea iKen take it easy on use regular poster with that fancy HTML coding stuff. Next your be a great Windows user and then won't talk to us"
It's a good thing you apologized, or we would have to fight with knives! :)
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| rlhamon |
12/4/03, 9:20 AM EDT |
Stickman you are correct. Gates is like the sheep herder when he speaks the sheep gather around.
baaa baaa where sheople baa baa baaa
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| speedyrev |
12/4/03, 2:30 PM EDT |
Security issues are so ingrained into M$. 2 yrs ago, when I bought my first Mac, I actually bought Norton for OSX! It was strictly a PC reflex. Do you think it's done anything?
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| sweetjimmyhugs |
12/4/03, 3:29 PM EDT |
I'd say not, unless you have alot of windows using friends. You might infect them if a virus comes in an email and you forward it. I always say if you use windows you get everything you deserve. Ok, some people can't help it, so I do feel sorry for them. But anyone who actually believes Gates' rhetoric and bashes Linux because its "not secure" is a certifiable jackass.
Oh, thanks for the chart, iKen. I couldn't have done a comparison without it. :-D
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| David Duncan |
12/4/03, 6:01 PM EDT |
I thought of the perfect simile for windows and it's viruses. Let's take for example, the American population. Every year the flu comes around, and we go get flu shots. Then in another year we have to go get it again. The shot never really cures the problem. Just makes it go away for a while. (Not that I'm saying the flu shot is bad.)
With windows, its kinda the same. Microsuck has to give the OS updates every month to try and stop the latest baddie. Except unlike the flu shot, the updates still don't work.
Macs however are like a super futuristic martian race who developed a vaccine that stops all viruses (cold, flu, aids) forever.
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| stickman67 |
12/5/03, 12:25 AM EDT |
Yep, but imagine having to take 40 flu shots a year, plus a couple of extras to fix up the dud ones you'd had ...
You'd look like a junkie, feel like a pincushion and, worst of all, still have the flu!
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| HTML Samurai |
12/5/03, 8:21 AM EDT |
*cough* *cough* FUD *cough* *cough*
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Giaguara
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12/5/03, 2:58 PM EDT |
waddas cough html samurai? are you using perhaps a peecee? :D
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| HTML Samurai |
12/10/03, 9:11 AM EDT |
Umm... No... ;)
But I did find this information for those that choose to beleive this FUD: According to an article I found on vnunet.com, "Firms belonging to the Corporate IT Forum (TIF) have reported that they lose more than £100,000 from each major virus infection." Now for those of you that are unfamiliar with the £ symbol, it is a UK Pound - which translates to about $174,500 US. But I am sure that they spend more on fixing all of those Linux viruses...
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