Comments on: HOW MICROSOFT SEES OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

By: boy

boy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:55:20 +0000

men…comow!
we livin in capitalism system…what you can be?!

By: kim

kim — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:33:51 +0000

hope they don’t are jealous on gimp

By: SiSo

SiSo — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:52:57 +0000

You do know that Microsoft “made” DOS, right? You *do* know that, right?

And you also know that Microsoft would never have had a GUI worth ANYTHING without the Mac OS, right? You *do* know that, don’t you?

Have you *used* the Mac OS since 1993? Have you? Windows XP (and certainly Windows Vista) don’t hold a candle to the power and ease of use of Mac OS X.

And, by the way, all the *touted* features of Windows Vista have been present in Mac OS X (and Linux) for years. Like, *years*. Go learn something different.

And, by the way, just because you know how to change stuff in the Windows Registry, doesn’t make you a “hacker,” man.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:37:35 +0000

I’m sorry , but without microsoft, computers would be very poor. We might’d be using dos

OR EVEN WORSE

MAC OS !!!!!

By: jules

jules — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:17:39 +0000

Family guy helped with a Yakov Smirnoff joke in one of their earlier episodes too. I assume slashdot came first, but I’m too lazy to look it up.

By: Jose S.

Jose S. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:06:10 +0000

I was just about to post the same. That scene happened in Santiago de Chile, 2006… Cops against students. Go figure.

By: Felipe M.

Felipe M. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:05:38 +0000

just for the ones actually interested on what’s going on there.
first of all, that picture was taken on chile, 2006. that year thousands of highschool students and some university students (me included) protested to change the education policies at that time. In Chile students are often called “pingüinos” (Penguins, in english) as they are required to wear penguin-like uniforms. that’s a funny picture i hadn’t seen actually… oh, almost forgot…
if you’re gonna change something in the frontpage (like saying who’s in that picture) i think that the most accurate description you’ll get is “A chilean highschool student”

By: indy

indy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:13:23 +0000

lame

By: Ms. Valit

Ms. Valit — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:31:35 +0000

aw, poor penguin!

By: McKennan

McKennan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:50:31 +0000

Ya know what? I don’t care ‘cuz Apple pwns!

By: UKSponge360

UKSponge360 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:31:07 +0000

I used to have an Amiga A600, and program things in Amos Pro… ah, those were the days…

By: Destin

Destin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:29:04 +0000

No.

By: James

James — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:45:11 +0000

Hay I read about all that stuff in ancient history class.

By: James

James — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:34:32 +0000

Don’t worry that just means someone will be working harder to wast it, its human nature…

By: AC

AC — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:50:29 +0000

Billy Connolly?

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:48:45 +0000

I still liked my Commodore 64 better. I had that thing’s entire ROM practically memorized. The one thing I regret is that I never had the money for an
Amiga. Now those were way ahead of their time, they even had preemptive multitasking when most personal computer operating systems still used cooperative multitasking, at best.

By: Schmoe

Schmoe — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:35:33 +0000

You’ve just made a happy man feel very old.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:44:18 +0000

The TI 99/4a had awesome graphics for it’s time. A full 16 bits rather then the 8 everyone else had.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:42:13 +0000

Small world, the TI 99/4a was the first computer that was all mine, not the family computer. And data couplers, haha! Yeah, that was what the teletype used.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:06:57 +0000

LOL! Yeah, baby, Bootstrap that damn system and let’s get rockin’!! I started out on Mainframes (i.e. CDC and Cray) before any such thing as PC’s were around.
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My first computer was a TI 99/4a with a tape recorder so I could back my code up.
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The version of Lunar Lander I played was actually on the system console with full graphics. We used to have competitions to see how far we could drive the lander into the moons surface.
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My first experience with ‘connecting online’ was the data couplers. You remember those? You dialed a number and had to put your phones handset into to two cups? It was the forerunner of 300 baud!

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:54:07 +0000

I know eh? Government: I’m doin’ it wrong.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:53:07 +0000

Someday, Eddie, we’ll teach these darn kids to stay off our lawn. *shakes fist* You kids with your youtubes and your GUI and your 3d Graphics! Why, in my day, we programmed our computers with front panel toggle switches, and we were grateful!
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My first family computer was a TRS-80 model I, but the first computer I ever used (back in 1976, I was six!) was my friend’s dad’s teletype terminal connected to his university mainframe. He’d let me waste reams of paper playing ‘hunt the wumpus’ and ‘lunar lander,’ (‘Your capsule is 200 miles above the moon. You are traveling at 640 feet per second. You have 200 units of fuel left. How much do you burn this second?’ That was the game.)
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I didn’t get an IBM compatible until much later, the late 80s I think. I was online before I’d ever even used DOS, we had a 1200 baud modem for the TRS-80, and an account on CompuServe and GEnie. Ahh, those were the days.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:44:14 +0000

Was that sarcasm? “Lol News and Lol…” Not to mention, take a guess at where this picture could be taking place. Come on, just one guess. Think your post through just a bit more next time before hitting “Add comment”. Please.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:43:30 +0000

That’ll be their problem.
It’s actually charging at them very rapidly.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:40:55 +0000

GNOME, KDE, XFCE, or libcurses, Uncle Fester?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:29:18 +0000

Ok, just out of morbid curiosity, does anyone remember when DOS used to be free? My first copy was DOS 2.12.. It was in major competition with CPM in it’s day.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:26:20 +0000

Yakov Smirnoff – LOL! That guy was funny as.. I couldn’t remember the name either, but I have seen his routine live.

By: AC

AC — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:48:17 +0000

A comedian?
Thanks muchly.

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:39:26 +0000

Oh, so it’s slash/dot I need to – thank.

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:38:06 +0000

You are saving taxpayers money?!?!?

My God, man!

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:30:12 +0000

It started with Yakov Smirnoff, the Russian comedian from the 80s. But it was Slashdot.org that popularized the phrase on the Internet. Slashdot was also the site of the first ‘first post!’

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:28:46 +0000

… Can somebody get her the name of the comedian since his name eludes me at the moment?

By: AC

AC — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:26:35 +0000

Where did this “in soviet Russia things are the other way round” thing stem from?

By: ck

ck — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:45:21 +0000

In Soviet Russia.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:29:22 +0000

Properly implemented userland? What’s your definition of proper? I mean sure, certain Linux distributions have had library problems, or non standard layouts that made compiling from source a bear, but I haven’t had any problems recently.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:26:33 +0000

Same here. I’ve been using Linux for twelve years. The first few years, I wouldn’t even touch a Windows machine (unclean! heretical!) But quite frankly, Windows has gotten better. My Windows servers here at work have the same uptime stats that my Linux servers do. I still prefer open source solutions if they are available, especially working in government. I figure every time find an open source solution, I’m saving the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollar.

By: ck

ck — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:31:49 +0000

One of my friends made a cake complete with marzipan penguin for our coder friend’s B-day. It was pretty awesome.

By: Destin

Destin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:43:53 +0000

This is pretty political.

By: n8

n8 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:39:38 +0000

Usually it’s the other way around!

By: tucker lol

tucker lol — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:32:50 +0000

As a sales rep for an open source program, I find this hugely amusing.

By: Yumi

Yumi — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:55:24 +0000

I don’t know microsoft rapes penguins.

By: Pugiron

Pugiron — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:43:39 +0000

If thats supposed to be Microsoft how come none of the cops are raping the penguin?

By: Fail Funnies

Fail Funnies — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:36:13 +0000

Nothing like trying to keep the monopoly in power.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:29:10 +0000

I prefer FreeBSD, but then I also prefer a properly implemented userland.

By: n8

n8 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:13:35 +0000

I used to be a huge Linux zealot. Not so much anymore… I still love Linux, but I’ve learned that it’s more about getting the right tool for the job. Kind of like an election that way… you pick the right candidate for the time. GOBAMA!

By: Doc235

Doc235 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:12:30 +0000

little do they realize that over half thier horde are secretly using LINUX , so lets watch and see if they notice

By: Doc235

Doc235 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:11:10 +0000

linux laying there teling the hordes of windows users (sent out by evil mickeysoft monster grill bates) that if ya think i am going away, then come ON.