Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
some dumb fsck wrote:
(idiocy and lies snipped)
Ridiculous.
chrisv wrote:
Joel wrote:
some dumb fsck wrote:
(idiocy and lies snipped)
Ridiculous.
That shameless jackass doesn't deserve a response. He's self-nuking.
I wouldn't dispute that, but it is worth saying again that the
community has achieved something beyond just copying Unix.
chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
Joel wrote:
some dumb fsck wrote:
(idiocy and lies snipped)
Ridiculous.
That shameless jackass doesn't deserve a response. He's self-nuking.
I wouldn't dispute that, but it is worth saying again that the
community has achieved something beyond just copying Unix.
On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the
design, names and functionality of Unix.
"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard
Stallman Sep 27 1983
He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.
chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
the community has achieved something beyond just copying Unix.
Haters never give credit to the FOSS community for all the good work
that has been done, and the tremendous benefits it has brought to our >>world. It's all sneering and ridicule.
It's a competitive environment with commercial OSes. No matter what
they'll admit.
I think the only commercial UNIX®️ around now is MacOS.
Haters never give credit to the FOSS community for all the good work
that has been done, and the tremendous benefits it has brought to our
world. It's all sneering and ridicule.
What happened to Midori?
He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of
being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.
What a weird perspective you have on modern systems.
You're stuck in the age of the SCO sales debacle.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the
design, names and functionality of Unix.
"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free?to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard
Stallman Sep 27 1983
He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of
being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.
Ridiculous.
GNU and Linux together are a masterpiece of what open
source software can accomplish.
I'm running a distro of GNU/Linux on
a computer that's good enough to upgrade to Win12, but I don't even
need that, thanks to Stallman and Torvalds. They may have gotten the
idea from the origins of Unix, but their combined product is its own.
Microsoft is trying to figure out how to survive in this brave
new world.
("But muh desktop runs Windows!" -- well, good for you.)
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:58:16 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of >>> being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.
What a weird perspective you have on modern systems.
You're stuck in the age of the SCO sales debacle.
Yep. You got it.
He is a wretched little man, a pathetic dinosaur without relevancy.
There is nothing else for him to do other than futilely fume over
the inevitable ascension and domination of FOSS.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
On 4/10/2024 8:12 PM, vallor wrote:
("But muh desktop runs Windows!" -- well, good for you.)
Not just mine, but nearly everyone's: most desktops at your company, all >>your family, all your friends, etc.
Nobody would've ever popped into cola were it not for desktop Linux.
It's all Torvalds cares about, too.
I prefer desktop Linux to what I had with Win11.
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
On 4/10/2024 8:12 PM, vallor wrote:
("But muh desktop runs Windows!" -- well, good for you.)
Not just mine, but nearly everyone's: most desktops at your company, all
your family, all your friends, etc.
Nobody would've ever popped into cola were it not for desktop Linux.
It's all Torvalds cares about, too.
I prefer desktop Linux to what I had with Win11.
But as noted, GuhNoo just stole everything they could from Unix: the
file layout structure, the utility names and functionality, and even the incorporation of 'Unix' into their silly recursive name.
Hail Stallman
Note: it's payware, but I still consider MS Office the best software
value in history. I won't accept ANY other office suite, free of cost
or not, because I KNOW they ALL pale in comparison to MSO.
DFS wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
But as noted, GuhNoo just stole everything they could from Unix: the
file layout structure, the utility names and functionality, and even the
incorporation of 'Unix' into their silly recursive name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project
Richard Stallman announced his intent to start coding the GNU Project in a
Usenet message in September 1983.[9] Despite never having used Unix prior,
Stallman felt that it was the most appropriate system design to use as a
basis for the GNU Project, as it was portable and "fairly clean".
"the ubiquity, breadth, and quality of its freely available redistributable
and modifiable software, which has enabled a generation of research and
commercial development".
On Apr 11, 2024 at 8:46:29 AM EDT, "DFS" <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
Note: it's payware, but I still consider MS Office the best software
value in history. I won't accept ANY other office suite, free of cost
or not, because I KNOW they ALL pale in comparison to MSO.
Only now is Office "the best software value in history" since you can get Office Pro 2021 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher and Access) for under $50. 20 years ago when Office was $500 it was not a good
value at all.
Don't even get me started on the $100 per year for life Office 365.
Even Windows 11 can be had for around $30.
MS is not making money on desktop software these days.
Now the money is all in Azure cloud services, which is
around 90% Linux.
Only now is Office "the best software value in history" since you can get >Office Pro 2021 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher >and Access) for under $50. 20 years ago when Office was $500 it was not a good >value at all.
Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
https://aussie.zone/post/8540166
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! The world's highest paid software
engineers have to go begging to a FOSS project for assistance and
then expect immediate, high priority attention just because they
are Microslop.
On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the
design, names and functionality of Unix.
"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard
Stallman Sep 27 1983
He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.
Le 10-04-2024, Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> a écrit :
Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
https://aussie.zone/post/8540166
Thanks for that.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! The world's highest paid software
engineers have to go begging to a FOSS project for assistance and
then expect immediate, high priority attention just because they
are Microslop.
That's the real issue. There is nothing wrong i using FOSS for a big
company. But expecting high priority assistance for free is really scandalous.
Le 10-04-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the
design, names and functionality of Unix.
As I don't really know if you are seriously mistaken or trolling, I'll
answer seriously.
They were mostly following a norm, the POSIX norm. There is nothing
wrong in following a norm. That's what you do when you program in C. You follow the norm. Like that, you can use any C compiler for your code.
And when you share your code, you don't have to tell which compiler they
need to use.
As the POSIX norm is a little bit outdated, Linux don't always follow it
(and it pisses off some BSD users who can be stuck in the past). When
one says Linux is an UNIX, it's in the broad sense, not in the exact
sense because it's not certified (it has been once years ago but it's expensive and useless now).
"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard
Stallman Sep 27 1983
Yes, exactly. He chose to follow the norm, not to steal the code.
He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream
of being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.
The OS parasite is the future of your lovely Microsoft foundation. I said
it before, you believe I'm dreaming, but I'll explain it again because all
of the evidences point to it.
The big money for Microsoft is in the cloud, not in the Windows OS
installed on personal computers.
It means: Azure for the companies and Microsoft 365 for everyone. For
that, you need only a browser, not a full OS.
And the browser is Edge. Which is not a real Microsoft browser.
It's a Microsoft GUI running Chromium.
And they'll do the same with Windows. It's obvious.
It will be far less
expensive for them to run only their GUI on a Linux kernel than to
support a full OF. Linux gives already the possibility to choose your
own Window Manager, there is nothing to adapt for it. Twenty years ago,
it was really difficult to find Linux drivers when you bought some
hardware. It's not the case anymore. I know, for printers it's not that
true, but printers are difficult to use with Windows, too (not when you
buy them, on the long run).
So everything is ready for Microsoft. And the first step for this has
already been taken. It's named WSL.
Really, I'm not saying what I'm hopping because I'm not that sure it's
really a good thing for me. I'm saying what everything show.
On 4/13/2024 4:28 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Le 10-04-2024, Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> a écrit :
Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:
https://aussie.zone/post/8540166
Thanks for that.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! The world's highest paid software
engineers have to go begging to a FOSS project for assistance and
then expect immediate, high priority attention just because they
are Microslop.
That's the real issue. There is nothing wrong i using FOSS for a big
company. But expecting high priority assistance for free is really
scandalous.
Why? They allow the submitter to assign a priority. If they don't want
to address critical bugs first, they shouldn't allow you to assign an importance.
And you'll never guess who replied to the MS bug report and provided a fix.
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341#comment:4
(if that's really him. I'd question him spending his time answering
ffmpeg bug reports when he has big companies to run)
some dumb fsck wrote:
Stphane CARPENTIER wrote:
There is nothing wrong i using FOSS for a big
company. But expecting high priority assistance for free is really
scandalous.
Why?
They allow the submitter to assign a priority. If they don't want
to address critical bugs first, they shouldn't allow you to assign an
importance.
(detailed explanation snipped)
Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
(detailed explanation snipped)
DumFSck is stupid and obtuse.
If I were you, I'd delete unread any response from him,
But, sometimes, I find it can be interesting to answer even if it's a
mild troll. And it helps me improve my English which can't be bad.
On 4/14/2024 4:32 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
But, sometimes, I find it can be interesting to answer even if it's a
mild troll. And it helps me improve my English which can't be bad.
Your English has improved significantly since you've been here on cola.
Besides participating in cola/Usenet, how else do you work on it?
I'm not working on it in the sense of having a teacher or doing
exercices. Something like half of what I'm reading is in English. And I
had to exchange with non French speakers, so it was in English,
something like two or three hours a week. A big part of the music I'm listening and of the movies I'm looking at are in English too. Something
like thirty or forty percent.
There are people energized to vote Republican today, who don't even
fathom how lucky they are to speak English.
Le 15-04-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 4/14/2024 4:32 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
But, sometimes, I find it can be interesting to answer even if it's a
mild troll. And it helps me improve my English which can't be bad.
Your English has improved significantly since you've been here on cola.
Besides participating in cola/Usenet, how else do you work on it?
I'm not working on it in the sense of having a teacher or doing
exercices. Something like half of what I'm reading is in English. And
I had to exchange with non French speakers, so it was in English,
something like two or three hours a week. A big part of the music I'm listening and of the movies I'm looking at are in English too. Something
like thirty or forty percent.
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