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"Who do you think is the joke, sir? The leadership?"

Yes

" the engineers and developers?"

Yes

"when you say MS is a joke, isn't that insulting the entire
company?"

Yes. A company that claims billions of dollars in R&D can't produce a document which can survive standardisation
(community did), can't provide interoperability
documentation for EC several years after being charged,
several years to bring out an OS update with most of it's
much talked about features dropped (rest copies of other
OSes).

"Their server market is growing, and this is impressive
since it started out as mixture of government supported
Unix servers and commercial Unix servers over time and
the natural play for old Unix shops was obviously Linux
since it's built on the Unix model down to the rivets."

Unix servers are moving to Linux. Windows servers are
growing the market for servers.

"What is the name of the OS you wrote again?"

MS can't be a joke because it wrote an OS? I'm not sure
that is a very persuasive case;-)

"SUN was 100% federally funded, every bit of it, the OS the
processors, the business, the monopoly exemption the
Works richard."

100%?

"Now people claim SUN was damaged by Microsoft."

MS settled such a claim and paid Sun billions.

"Anyway, as the article said and you and the person quoted
in the blog completely lost sight of, OOXML is supported
by and large now."

Apart from supporting the standard. I believe this was the
point.

"I'll respect your socialism, but why not try to show an
ounce of respect for capitalism."

An attack on MS is now an attack on capitalism;-) Queue
national anthem in background;-)

"Or are you going to tell me there's never been any
corruptio in the English government?"

I think you might be referring to the British Government. There has not been a Government of England since 1707. Whilst I'm sure they have issues I'm not that familiar, I'm
not English.

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 05/23/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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