__/ [ ray ] on Wednesday 07 June 2006 01:37 \__
> On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:42:56 -0700, Frank wrote:
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060606/tc_cmp/188701822
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> It also says that MS servers have 20% more available uptime than RHEL
> servers. I'm assuming that they all present at least 90% uptime - so MS
> would have to have better than 108% uptime - difficult to achieve!
It's just pure FUD from Didiot. I'm sure she got/will get some
under-the-table dough for this 'study', as well as a rim job from her
beloved Bullmer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
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| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free, open
| operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free and
| open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though it is
| some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it like that,
| at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'"
|
| On another occasion, she made a similar comment: "I'm all for open
| source, and competition serves everyone's interest. But if Linux is
| really to take its place alongside Windows... then the vendors in this
| space cannot act like a bunch of hippies in a '60s commune or ashram.
| There really is no such thing as a free lunch."
|
| Unsurprisingly Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
| DiDio. Typical criticism are a lack of formal Computer Science
| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft, frequently
| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
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