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Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I think Smithy, NY is off the mark. If Smithy just wants to say that Microsoft is the best solution and that open systems are bad (of course that's a paraphrase), then say that, and let's debate that.http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?
[January 27, 2004, 22:33]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback David Hallowell :"Smithy, I can say that this user group is not rapidly declining and in fact has been growing in popularity since the late 90's mainly due to the success of Linux. David Hallowell also claims : "Charles' comments are not anti...
[January 27, 2004, 23:04]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, I can say that this user group is not rapidly declining and in fact has been growing in popularity since the late 90's mainly due to the success of Linux. Charles' comments are not anti Microsoft for the sake of being anti Microsoft, he's...
[January 27, 2004, 21:48]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback smithy ' they Linux ource code was easily hacked. And if Debian had not admitted it, those hackers would simply have released that info on the internet' The debian source code got stolen? It's OPEN SOURCE!
[January 30, 2004, 13:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, I am not at all ignorant about economic disparities in the US. Neither am I ignorant about the effects of the US' 20+ trillion deficit on the US economy - present or future. Neither do I have to be Anti-US to know of such things.
[January 30, 2004, 10:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, type in to google - ambassador peru nunez microsoft - or go to http://www.msl.mit.edu/esd10/sslinks/links.php? cat=116 or other places. One wonders how long you have been burrying your head in the sand.
[January 30, 2004, 10:10]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy I think you are merely a troll. You are the one who sounds like the fanatic round here, stick with the facts not opinions. Benchmarks: http://www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_66/TuxNET/TuxNET.htm Pretty close to be fair, the other benchmark is...
[January 30, 2004, 4:52]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Jonsaw : " Smithy, if the person who wrote the virus that attacked SCO is a Linux loon, then would it follow that the people who collaborated to attack the Debian server are all Microsoft goons? Nope.
[January 29, 2004, 20:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I would like to question Smithy on his knowledge and understanding of how the *nix operating systems actually function. Do you have a single clue, have you actaually run any of these OS? You also said in anything windows smokes linux hands down...
[January 29, 2004, 12:02]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, though you may speak of plundering, poverty and donations in a separitist mannner, one is not naive enough not to see the way in which institutions/organisations and individuals derive benefits from accepted practices/policies.
[January 29, 2004, 11:12]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, if the person who wrote the virus that attacked SCO is a Linux loon, then would it follow that the people who collaborated to attack the Debian server are all Microsoft goons?
[January 29, 2004, 7:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy writes: I am going to give you a quote from CNN on this "MyDoom" virus, which was written by Linux fanatics It's ridiculous to blame all Linux users for the actions of one or a few idiots (the author/authors of the MyDoom virus/worm).
[January 28, 2004, 8:49]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback With regard to your stay in Germany, Smithy, one can only say that you and I are not completely ignorant about the realities of living. Much as in Africa, in Europe or in the States, one would be careful of where one stays and where one chooses to...
[February 2, 2004, 13:31]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, one smiles when you praise Gates for the movement of doctors and medicines in to Africa. What about the intellect that is being poached out of Africa - enourmous "brain drain" comparatively speaking.
[February 2, 2004, 13:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback The screaming, whimpering, maleducated, troll - serf "smithy" makes a total fool of himself, as he has throughout this thread IMO making claims and offering no back up other than his heresay, which counts for nothing.
[January 31, 2004, 17:52]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback One does apologise, smithy, I did mean abolition and not prohibition -- Languages, hey.
[January 31, 2004, 11:22]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy: "US GDP a sizzling . Well you appear to not have listened to the concerns of a lot of the US economists. I prefer to look at the foundation of such growth.as it describes the future impact of such policies.
[January 31, 2004, 10:27]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Then, Smithy, there is the economy. One must say that Africa suffers from an absence of good economic strategies that are production related as there are many who see development from the consumption side of the equation and few that see it from...
[January 31, 2004, 10:22]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy : "Doesn't oppose the dev of Open Source Software.etc" Well much like the US embassy rep, you seem not to understand the diff b/w OSS and Free software. This was cleared up by Nunez -http://www.opensource.org/docs/peru_and_ms.php.
[January 31, 2004, 10:04]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "Smithy" is clearly a troll. Although the last question is probably a little unfair on Smithy as he's clearly never been to a university (not an insult, just an educated, excuse the pun, guess). He has used personal insults so I would suspect that...
[March 11, 2005, 13:00]
