Stop Microsoft
Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: mushrooomprince on 3 September 2003, 06:42
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Oh boy, I've got something for you guys !
http://info.lindows.com/LindowsRock/LindowsRock.html (http://info.lindows.com/LindowsRock/LindowsRock.html)
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Oh...
My...
Freaking...
Lord
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OH...MY...GOD...that was the stupidist but kinda funny thing i have seen in a while. The one thing that is so stupid about it is that it COST $$MONEY$$. That is really gay. It was something fun to watch.
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DON'T COMPILE THAT LINUX TAR! YOU'RE NOW A LINDOWS STAR!
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Um... it was... entertaining.
It does fit with their usual marketing methods, which are pretty typical for startups from the dotcom era, especially relatively small privately-owned entreprises.
Could this be a resurrection of the bubble?
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Sad, the flash animation sucked I dont think that will infuence ppl to get it, that green logo is soo anoying theu should make it into a penguin running now that would be cool
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Excuse me while i jam a red hot poker in my ey. :(
Though really... how is Lindows the most affordable software ever?
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Ok now I've seen something more stupid than SuperDeformed Gundam.
I'll go vomit now.
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OMG!
This one is sick enough to make me come out of hibernation...
V
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I thoought it was pretty good for a newer company
Although if I was CEO of MP3.com I think I would have made some pretty strong Multimedia contacts....
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OH DEAR GOD THE FREAKING PAIN!!!
The pain! Arrgghh!
Not only am I freaking scared for life but I am now almost ashamed to be a Linux user and thus associated with that... *thing.* We must purge Lindows for the good of the collective.
I will never pick on Apples switch ads again...
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Originally posted by Faust:
I will never pick on Apples switch ads again...
You can still pick on apple commercials with that idiot Jeff Goldblum.
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Whos Jeff Goldblum?
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Originally posted by Faust:
Whos Jeff Goldblum?
The Slick scientist in Jurassic Park
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The dude in Jurassic Park makes anti Apple jokes? Is this on the actual movie or a different show?
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that lindows thing was shocking.
i still can't beliee it's not a parody!
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Wow, Im amazed at how well I can find shit on the internet. I'm hoping it was ment to be stupid because if it wasn't we have a serious problem in the OSS community.
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Lindows has NEVER been part of the open source community.
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I thought it was Linux ? Linux is linux right ?
WHy don't you talk to me about it on aim calum ?
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Originally posted by Faust:
The dude in Jurassic Park makes anti Apple jokes? Is this on the actual movie or a different show?
NO NO NO
The Jurassic Park dude makes adds for apple, switch TO apple, he did the voice over for them. I think he does the voice in the G5 commercial does'nt he?
web page (http://www.macminute.com/2003/07/15/g5ad)
This Guy
(http://www.jpaftermath.com/images/page_data/malcolm_jp.gif)
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yes. that's him.
He cannot speak or read
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im afraid.
im afraid that someone created this thing.
im afraid that atleast someone else had to ok and greenlight the thing.
the gene pool will never be the same.
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Originally posted by mushrooomprince:
I thought it was Linux ? Linux is linux right ?
WHy don't you talk to me about it on aim calum ?
linux is linux and linux is only about 4% of any operating system. the rest is added stuff. the trend is to make whole systems based on GNU, and other open source styles of software. perl, sendmail, XFree86 are all on non GPL licences but they are still open source. in fact the majority of linux software is nonGPL, about an estimated 27% of most linux systems are GPL software.
as it happens some distributors make the effort to have only open source software in their distribution but most have at some point also had distributions which have at least some closed source stuff, and often they charge for the 'privelege'. for example Mandrake released a special box set edition of mandrake 8.2 with some closed source games (the sims etc) and charged for it (presumably because they had to pay to sell the games), SuSE have always charged for their distribution (i think) because it includes some non-free components. debian and slackware have never done this. red hat have never done it, but this is not from altruism, it is because they wanted to be popular amongst open source purists. Solaris has always been a distribution which charges money and is closed source (so no linux, no GPL stuff, no source code CDs), Caldera's first linux distro was a bare bones linux with a proprietary (and expensive) GUI and desktop environment, they felt they could not make a profit unless they bundled payfer software on the CDs with the "freeware", and now LindowsOS. they include a lot of GPL stuff on their CD, and they can provide source code if required, as the GPL states, but they also include closed source payfer software of their own, exactly the same as caldera did eleven years ago. Unlike red hat and mandrake (whose additional software is all GPL), Lindows have chosen to keep their new software closed source and to charge for it. i think the going rate for a LindowsOS CD is about $130 at the moment (up from $99 last year, a rise of 30%, is it worth it?) and of course since the majority of the software you actually get is available on a free CD you can download from mandrake, slackware, debian etc etc, you have to ask yourself, how much extra software is on here? and is it worth the extra money? other distros have perfectly goof free GPL software that does exactly this click and run stuff etc. My red hat uses apt and synaptic, they make software installation and updating into a task even a five year old could cope with easily.
so those in brief are my thoughts on why lindows, like caldera (now trading as SCO (http://promote-opensource.org/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=21)) are not part of the open source community.
[ September 04, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]