Re: Vista

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:56:02 -0600, "HeyBub" <heybub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard wrote:

Also many Linux machines are recycled older machines that ran Win98,
ME or 2000 and would otherwise be dumped, yet will run perfectly fine
for most home users, or even for businesses. They don't get counted
either.


Okay, okay, I surrender! Add 12 machines to the total. Jeeze! What does it
take to get Linux lovers to quit acting like the third monkey on Noah's
gangplank? If somebody wants to use a knock-off of a 40-year old operating
system designed by a money-losing division of their local telephone company,
I say go for it. Just quit preaching to normal folk and do your shit where
the children can't see it.

Unix may be a small player in the desktop market, but is the DOMINANT operating system in
what I call Big Unix, the machines that replaced mainframes.

The whole telephone industry runs on Unix machines having 64 CPUs and processing >10,000
transactions per second. Ditto for airlines reservations, pharmacy claims and lots of
other applications.

And we're no longer losing money.
.

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