Microsoft continues to be evil

[likethebeer]

Microsoft Continues Movement To Crush Unix/Linux

"Microsoft announced yesterday they completed the acquisition of Sybari. In their statement, at the very bottom, Microsoft said they would discontinue Antigen sales for Unix/Linux products. There were a number of other aspects to the press release but that little sentence had the most impact.

Microsoft said the Sybari acquisition will give enterprise customers a much more secure system by adding critical security components and that Sybari would support the Windows platform. But now they won't support the Linux/Unix platforms."

Comments

bah

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

more scare tactics,.. linux grows every day and unix hold a place windows could only hope for,..

Re: bah

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I know, it's just their tactics are so frustrating. i feel like MS should be sued for interfering with people's abilities to do their jobs. mda is working for some people who had a very nice program that did what they needed to do, then MS bought the company, stopped making that program, and stopped supporting it. In order for them to get the "new" "better" MS product, they'd need like a $5,000 server and computer upgrades. And have to learn a new program.

a very nice program that did what they needed to do

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

then they should have continued to use it,and supported it themselves,.this is what has made MS such a powerful POS, the have everyone convinced you need to buy new all the time, and do their damndest to convince every one theres no other choice, which is bull,..give the money MS would milk out of you to someone local to maintan the old, if more people did that the grass roots thing that built this contry would make a come back,..

Re: a very nice program that did what they needed to do

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

One problem was that they had XP, and the 2nd big XP update is part of what's messing w/their program. If MS still supported it, they could at least find answers to why funky things keep happening.

I just realized--JUST realized--that XP is also the icon. XP

The techies must have been laughing at this one for awhile.

is also the icon.

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

yeah, very appropriate,.
xp has a lot of purposeful obsolesience functions built in, i just put my brother back on a hacked 98 so his 400 dollar super video card would work because xp wouldn't use it,..theres no reason for that except forcing people to buy new equipment,.. it like how the car companys cut their own throats, the day is coming,.. get thee to a real operating system,..linux/unix,..:)

Re: is also the icon.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

mda has Linux running on most of our computers 'cept for my new one (as of my b-day, 2/26). And we have a firewall, so I don't worry about viruses.

And he's got a samba server that he's really psyched about and playing w/more and more. And there's Knoppix. So he's got us all covered.

When I had linux on "my" old machine (really his machine that I took over) I got a call from a co asking how we were "dealing" with the Blaster worm. I said, "We don't have a system that is affected by that worm." THen I had to tell her that we had, at that time, Linux, Windows 95 & 98.

I loved the hacked story, though. That's something that mda would approve of. scrappy!

the hacked story

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

i would have put linux on his box except it would have been a waste, all he does is chat rooms and games,..and the games are all windows,.. he was pretty happy, because instead of having to by the xp versions of several of them he just kept what he had,and he loves firefox,.. so it's all good,..:)

Re: the hacked story

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

For a gamer, linux ain't the way. That's how I ended up w/windows--b/c I really wanted to play Outcast. I still do, but w/summer 'n all....

w/summer 'n all.

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

haha it'll still be there,.. i dont have the time to even think about playing games,..:)

Re: w/summer 'n all.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

That's what I tell myself. Feb. is a great time. And, hey, I waited 2 years to play Outcast again.

Speaking of geting out, I'll take a 20 minute walk. Shit--it's 10:14 already. Shit, nothing--I love this sun setting at 8:40 stuff.

Re: the hacked story

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

Outcast?

I'd totally switch to Linux if it weren't for my games addiction.

Re: the hacked story

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

http://www.classicpcgames.com/?p=game&ei=Outcast

we're old school.

MS

[(Anonymous)]

MS is an amoeba sucking all that is good and protozoan into its evil gelatinous center.

CAW

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