I picked up a business magazine a the dentists office and read an article on Martin Taylor Microsoft's point man to crush Linux. How much of an ass does a company have to be to have a upper-management position to crush an open source competitor. Lets face it Linux is great but they are not a treat to Microsoft. Feel free to express your opinions!

arent they? what os would most of us be using if it werent for linux? most would go back to windows. i would at least.

Linux is definitly urinating on Microsoft's bonfire!

You are correct Rv5, but the normal average person who plays games, surfs the net, and gets their email don't even know what Linux is. Again Linux is great but as far as sales go Microsoft shouldn't need a upper-management person to "neutralize Linux".

sales only because they have an account of how many M$ products have been sold

What about linux, there is no official statistics of how many linux OS have been downloaded(REDHAT/federo,SUSE,SLACKWARE,DEbian,Mandrake) of the official CD"s bought

So there is no point in comparing windows to linux in terms of sales

Ummm...a big ass company like M$.

For fun, tell me how many fingers you need to count the competiors M$ has not crushed.

You forgot the business market. Sure, there are a lot of those 'average' users, but I would say a part of that group never even bought Windows, but got a copy from their nice neighbour, brother, friend whatever.

M$ big bucks come from the business-market these days, and eventhough they still own (and for now will own) the average company desktop, they are loosing ground to Linux on the server-market fast. Very fast. More and more companies are giving those expensive Windows server-licences the good old boot and installing some flavor of Linux on the same hardware, not losing any functionality at all. And more and more system-managers know how to handle a linux-box.

M$ is losing ground to Linux worldwide, and in the places where it hurts; the places where the big bucks are; the business-market. That silly penguin is smashing in their Windows and Bill and his buddies aren't liking it very much, buster!

let the emotions fly

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Originally posted by spoody_goon
but the normal average person who plays games, surfs the net, and gets their email don't even know what Linux is.
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Well no one can escape the Linux bug.

Quoting Morpheus from The Matrix:
In the last six months, we have freed more minds than ...

It would seem I opened a can of worms, and learned a few things too. I can't wait until I am good enough at programing to be a real help to a project or two.

what really worries me is the ms attempt to buy google. funny how after google declined to sell, sco is turning toward google for their next target.
scares me bad. would google have the resources to fight sco?
i think this is an example of ms going to far to sneakily.

MS wanted to buy google? omg...
what wouldve happened to the google-linux search if they actually bought it?

Google's effectiveness (and thus value) as a search engine would seriously decreased if someone purchased them and modified the search algorithm to produce obviously inaccurate results. If people wanted search results that were ordered according highest bid, then they would be using one of the search engines that provide this service.

Search M$ Google for Linux.
No Results.
Did you mean misappropriated SCO intellectual property?

Of course they do! Sure, the average person doesn't know about Linux yet, but I am sure/hopeful that it won't be too long before more computer vendors see Linux as a real alternative. Almost all new machines sold today have Windows pre-installed, and that is, I am sure not because the vendor wants to be helpful to the customer, it is because Microsoft have sweetened the deal. Once Linux gets a larger profile (thanks IBM) I hope that more vendors will see that they can make even more money by installing a Free (in both senses of the word) OS rather than still having to pay monies to Microsoft for the same privilege.

Did that make sense?