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From: Alan Mairp on 1 Jun 2010 20:36
As everyone knows, GNU/Linux grew up as a project to create a completely
free alternative to Unix. Key parts were written by Richard Stallman
while living the archetypal hacker's life at and around MIT, and by
Linus Torvalds – in his bedroom. Against that background, it's no wonder
that one of Microsoft's approaches to attacking GNU/Linux has been to
dismiss it on technical grounds: after all, such a rag-bag of code
written by long-haired hippies and near-teenagers could hardly be
compared with the product of decades of serious, top-down planning by
some of best coding professionals money can buy, could it?

And thus was born the “Linux does not scale” meme – the idea that, yes,
this stuff is free, but you get what you pay for: code that no
enterprise could take seriously.

See who's the top OS at:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2990&blogid=14
From: Richard Maine on 1 Jun 2010 20:47
Alan Mairp <alan(a)mairp2.com> wrote:

> As everyone knows, GNU/Linux....

....is not a Mac system. And even if it were, this kind of flamebait
belongs in advocacy newsgroups.

> ...no enterprise could take seriously.

What I don't take seriously is the kind of people who post this kind of
flamebait to inappropriate groups.

--
Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Alan Mairp on 1 Jun 2010 22:56
On 06/01/2010 08:47 PM, Richard Maine wrote:
> Alan Mairp<alan(a)mairp2.com> wrote:
>
>> As everyone knows, GNU/Linux....
>
> ...is not a Mac system. And even if it were, this kind of flamebait
> belongs in advocacy newsgroups.
>
>> ...no enterprise could take seriously.
>
> What I don't take seriously is the kind of people who post this kind of
> flamebait to inappropriate groups.

Unfortunately, an Apple salesman called Zara, and about 100 different
other nicks, posts about 200 messages a day to make sure 99% of Apple
users will never read this group.

Just to make sure no one takes his messages seriously, once in a while,
he posts racists comments against Obama, knowing very well most Apple
users are democrats.

The day Apple removes its man from csma, I'll post advocacy messages on
the advocacy group.

This being said, OS X is certainly not worth the money you need to put
on Apple hardware in order to run it. As far as security goes, Charlie
Miller often explained that its only good feature versus Windows --
we're not even talking Linux, here! -- is that it doesn't interest
hackers because of poor market share.

If you consider telling this to Apple users is flamebait, maybe
flamebait is what brainwashed Mactards need in order to stop the Stock
Exchange bubble that AAPL is presently caught in.

Market cap. doesn't bring one cent more to Apple and when the bubble
burts -- and it will, just like Dell's did -- investors, and they're not
all that rich -- will lose a heap.

But you people are so stupid that you can't evaluate the situation. You
see Apple's shares going up and you shout "Hurray the Musketeers, we're
going to get Dell's guts!" without understanding that this insane bubble
will have to burst too.

So, if bringing Mactards to reality is flamebaiting, why not?

From: Richard Maine on 1 Jun 2010 23:11
Alan Mairp <alan(a)mairp2.com> wrote:
[more flamebait]

Welcome to my killfile (along with zara, who has long been there).

--
Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: George Kerby on 2 Jun 2010 09:40



On 6/1/10 9:56 PM, in article hu4h45$3ni$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, "Alan
Mairp" <alan(a)mairp2.com> wrote:

> On 06/01/2010 08:47 PM, Richard Maine wrote:
>> Alan Mairp<alan(a)mairp2.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As everyone knows, GNU/Linux....
>>
>> ...is not a Mac system. And even if it were, this kind of flamebait
>> belongs in advocacy newsgroups.
>>
>>> ...no enterprise could take seriously.
>>
>> What I don't take seriously is the kind of people who post this kind of
>> flamebait to inappropriate groups.
>
> Unfortunately, an Apple salesman called Zara, and about 100 different
> other nicks, posts about 200 messages a day to make sure 99% of Apple
> users will never read this group.
>
Can't be!

Zara owns a South American fashion boutique in West Palm Beach. And it's
mother turns tricks in her double-wide is South Jupiter.

No way, Jose...

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