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LMAO...yet another idiot writer. It is a good thing that his opinion piece is unbiased and balanced.
What a moron.
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It's like a cancer: a creeping, deadly disease that slowly erodes all that's good and clean, replacing it with a swill of malignancy and decrepitude.
I'm speaking, of course, of the recent appearance of Linux UI conventions under Windows. From the simplest open source utilities to the most polished commercial offerings, the stench of Linux is now permeating many of my favorite programs.
Well, that's has convinced me. I've made my mind up. I'm going to surgically remove a cancer from my laptop: M$ Windup ExPee Pro. That was the last straw. This was the penultimate one:
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,094
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Sounds like the scumbags in redmond are up to their old tricks, again.
If they can't win on merit, they try to discredit the competition through 3rd and 4th party PR campaigns. If you follow the money trail it always leads back to the usual source. This was brought out in a court case about 12 or so years ago and published in the LA Times.
More recently, a well known computer columnist point blank said m$ was responsible for the swear campaign against OS/2.
What goes around comes around, but it is taking much too long for m$ to get what's coming to them.
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