sunbelt-software.com — We are redoing our yearly major survey comparing Windows to Linux together with the Yankee Group. We'd like to invite all of you to participate and see how your peers are currently managing both Windows and Linux servers.
Jan 19, 2007 View in Crawl 4
schestowitzJan 20, 2007
The Yankee Group and Luara DiDiot are Microsoft sockpuppets. The survey will offer nothing but FUD and malice, as usual.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio</a>,----[ Quote ]| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,| open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free| and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though| it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it| like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]|| Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against| IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger| issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does| not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]|| [...]|| Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised| DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".`---- So, Tod Trent, how does Microsoft reward you to submit your stuff to Digg? Got that laptop yet?