Why Windows Lost The Battle for the Desktop

[John Bailo]

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

Unix has always been, and will continue to be, the Server OS in the form
of Linux.

Microsoft struggled mightily to win that battle -- creating a poor man's
DBMS, a broken email server and various other /application/ servers to
try and crack the Internet and IS markets.

In the case where they didn't spend their own money to get companies to
install servers, they failed miserably, and the 1 Billion per quarter
Linux market is testament to that.

But, what M$ didn't want you to know, is that the only reason they
wanted to dominate the server, is to protect their desktop and office
applications market.

Seal up the server, and the desktop is safe; cede the server, and the
desktop will fall.

And so it is...falling into the hands of Linux.

[Scott M.]

Can I use that soapbox when you are done with it? Do you feel better now?
"John Bailo" <ja*****@earthl ink.net> wrote in message
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The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

Unix has always been, and will continue to be, the Server OS in the form
of Linux.

Microsoft struggled mightily to win that battle -- creating a poor man's
DBMS, a broken email server and various other /application/ servers to
try and crack the Internet and IS markets.

In the case where they didn't spend their own money to get companies to
install servers, they failed miserably, and the 1 Billion per quarter
Linux market is testament to that.

But, what M$ didn't want you to know, is that the only reason they
wanted to dominate the server, is to protect their desktop and office
applications market.

Seal up the server, and the desktop is safe; cede the server, and the
desktop will fall.

And so it is...falling into the hands of Linux.

[Kent rockz]

Bailo is just upset over being alone and without presents on his birthday.
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Can I use that soapbox when you are done with it? Do you feel better now?
"John Bailo" <ja*****@earthl ink.net> wrote in message
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The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

Unix has always been, and will continue to be, the Server OS in the form
of Linux.

Microsoft struggled mightily to win that battle -- creating a poor man's
DBMS, a broken email server and various other /application/ servers to
try and crack the Internet and IS markets.

In the case where they didn't spend their own money to get companies to
install servers, they failed miserably, and the 1 Billion per quarter
Linux market is testament to that.

But, what M$ didn't want you to know, is that the only reason they
wanted to dominate the server, is to protect their desktop and office
applications market.

Seal up the server, and the desktop is safe; cede the server, and the
desktop will fall.

And so it is...falling into the hands of Linux.

[Peter Köhlmann]

begin John Bailo wrote:

< snip >

Oh looky looky, what have we got here?

Another JBAilo crosspost to stir up things (commonly defined as "troll")

Now who in his right mind would have suspected that?

Bailo, why are you such a dumb twit? Born that way or worked on it?
--
A NT server can be run by idiots and usually is

[C-Services Holland b.v.]

John Bailo wrote:

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

<SNIP>

Why is it that people falling over themselves to badmouth microsoft
always use Windows themselves :P
from the header of your post:

"User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913)"
--
Rinze van Huizen
C-Services Holland b.v.

[Peter Köhlmann]

C-Services Holland b.v. wrote:

John Bailo wrote:

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

<SNIP>

Why is it that people falling over themselves to badmouth microsoft
always use Windows themselves :P
from the header of your post:

"User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913)"

Well, he is JBailo. You will have a hard time finding anyone dumber

--
Computers are like air conditioners -
they stop working properly when you open Windows

[Kadaitcha Man]

C-Services Holland b.v. wrote:

John Bailo wrote:

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

<SNIP>

Why is it that people falling over themselves to badmouth microsoft
always use Windows themselves :P

What a load of fucking bollocks. Linuxfux fall over themselves to badmouth
micro$haft too, you fucking dense cunt.

[Kadaitcha Man]

Peter Köhlmann wrote:

C-Services Holland b.v. wrote:

John Bailo wrote:

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

<SNIP>

Why is it that people falling over themselves to badmouth microsoft
always use Windows themselves :P
from the header of your post:

"User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913)"

Well, he is JBailo. You will have a hard time finding anyone dumber

Until you showed up.

BTW. Who wrote those two sentences for you? The regular
shit/bowel/nappy/diaper/anus references are missing.

[7]

John Bailo wrote:

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

Unix has always been, and will continue to be, the Server OS in the form
of Linux.

Bailo you total dumbfsck!
Linux has nothing to do with Unix other than its modelled on it.

[mlw]

7 wrote:

John Bailo wrote:

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

Unix has always been, and will continue to be, the Server OS in the form
of Linux.

Bailo you total dumbfsck!
Linux has nothing to do with Unix other than its modelled on it.

Which, in itself, means a lot. It is fair to ponder "what is unix?" There is
the official "UNIX(tm)" which has been passed around so much, no one is
really sure who actually *owns* it anymore. SCO and Novell are fighting
over it, an the OpenGroup are said to own the trademark and specs.

Even UNIX isn't really UNIX, as much of the very foundation of what is
currently called "UNIX" came from BSD, and this was made clear in USL vs
BSD. On top of that, it isn't even clear that, under copyright law prior to
1990, that UNIX actually retains any copyright, thus can be owned at all.

Linux is an independant implementation of a unix-like OS, as were efforts
like coherent unix, minux, and others. All of these things can be called
"unix" in a generic sense.

There is "UNIX(tm)" and "unix" which is a sort of a short hand for "Posix"
based OS. Posix was coined by Richard Stallman to describe various
unix-like systems.

I think that it is pretty clear to all that Linux is unix-like, and that
most unix software will run on Linux.

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, one is forced to consider
the possibility, no matter how remote or absurd, that the subject just may
be an avian of the family Anatidae.