From: The Natural Philosopher on
Marti van Lin wrote:
>
>
> I am using GNU/Linux for over a decade now and I can confirm that
> Microsoft Windows has become an obsolate, overpriced piece of junk.
>
> Unfortunately the Microsoft Astroturfers realize that this is a *fact*
> so the only thing they have left are personal attacks.
>
> How silly ;-)
>
> (Note: please excuse me for my LAME English, I actually never "learned"
> English)
>
> Cheers :-*
>

It really doesn't matter. As linux gets better, its used more and more
*where its appropriate*.

This is despite all the fanboys in any camp. They add nothing to anything.

From: J G Miller on
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:56:21 +0100, Marti van Lin wrote:

> the only thing that this jackass does, is infecting "Open
> Source" with a Microsoft trojan, called Mono.

The greatest danger to "movements" and organisations is not
the opposition from the enemy, but subversion from within.

Mono, moonlight, tomboy, banshee are all seeds of that corruption.
From: J G Miller on
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:03:47 +0100, Hadron wrote:

> You dont understand Icaza's contributions

This is all one needs to understand about Icaza's contributions *today* --

"Microsoft Names Miguel de Icaza one of its Most Valuable Professionals"

<http://www.techflash.COM/seattle/2010/01/microsoft_names_ex-
rival_mvp.html>

QUOTE

He's also on the board of the Microsoft-supported CodePlex Foundation,

Meanwhile, Mono spin-off project Moonlight, an open-source
implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight interactive technology, has
won the blessings of the Redmond company.

UNQUOTE

and see how he likes it at

<http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Jan-11-1.html>
From: J G Miller on
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:48:32 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:

> he spends the day in his dorm room posting to Usenet.

How do you know he lives in a dorm room?
From: J G Miller on
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:35:03 +0000, William Poaster wrote:

> FYI: "Hadron" is a self confessed troll, & Windows user & programmer. He
> *pretends* to use Linux, but denigrates it in favour of M$ at *every*
> opportunity.

Any discerning reader would have noticed the ironic about turn of certain
posters who now heap praises upon Icaza and continue to pour scorn on
those who criticize him for his defection to Microsoft.

When the MS shills are praising somebody who is supposedly part of the
Open Software movement, which of course is anathema to Micrsoft business
practices, one always has to consider their underlying motivation.