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PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 13 comments
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In my previous post about last week’s Microsoft Technology Summit, I talked a little bit about the structure of the event and the overtures that Microsoft seems to be making towards the Open Source community. Some of my esteemed industry colleagues feel that Microsoft is never to be trusted, that they are a snake in the grass and a dangerous aggressor, and they are out to crush anyone who opposes them at any cost.

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Comments (13)

VisiGoth ·
He's just another microsoft fanboy.

They are set on killing Linux, make no mistake about it. I've heard Ballmer and top management say it and I've seen it in black and white.
nikkels ·
Well, it's called self defense and it's legal.

Ballmer has found out that linux is a cancer, and he is defending himself by trying to kill it. Unfortunately, it's not so easy, and more often than not, the cancer wins.

So, ........hang on.!
herzeleid ·
The tone of the article seems to be a bit condescending towards the linux community, while minimizing the misconduct of the redmond monopolist. Not much of real substance there at any rate.
tracyanne ·
Quoting:. And with a fully implemented NTFS, it will be much easier to sell Linux to end-users on the desktop, because it’s a file system they already know how to deal with.


Huh?
tuxchick ·
lol tracyanne, I missed that :)
techiem2 ·
ROFL. Install Linux on NTFS...
theboomboomcars ·
End users don't want to deal with the file system. With NTFS they are forced to defrag, but most don't, they pay someone else lots of money to. So having a filesystem that can be ignored seems to be they way to go.
gus3 ·
Quoting:With NTFS they are forced to defrag
I would adjust that to say:

"With NTFS on Windows they are forced to defrag..."

In Linux, we can experiment with allocation schemes to minimize fragmentation. Windows has very little opportunity to do that.
hkwint ·
I understood NTFS has its own defragmentation method, so it's probably not that bad.
gus3 ·
Microsoft was forced by customer demand to package a defrag program for NTFS, after Disk Keeper demonstrated how severe fragmentation could be on an NTFS volume.
hkwint ·
Hmm, OK, now I understand a tiny bit more of it. Anyway, great thing about NTFS are the surprised faces of Windows users you get when using a Lin-LiveCD to access their file-system. It's quite new to them the permissions do 'not work' when you use their NTFS-partitions from a LiveCD.
Sander_Marechal ·
Don't forget that the same applies to any (non-encrypted) *nix filesystem. Can't access some files? Run a live CD or hook up the drive to a machine you have root access to.

Nothing is safe if you have physical access.
jdixon ·
> Nothing is safe if you have physical access.

Which is something which cannot be repeated often enough. But, by and large, you're preaching to the choir here.

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