Comment Re:How does he afford $400 million? (Score 4, Funny) 279
RTFS:
FTFY
RTFS:
FTFY
The collapse of the PC market has had much discussion on Slashdot with a common opinion that, now that Apple is the largest personal computer manufacturer, a loss of sales combined with Apple's iPad will completely eliminate most of them.
The PC Market was collapsing? Apple is now the biggest PC manufacturer? We will all now use iPads instead a Desktop-PC?
Uh huh? Naturally, class names such as ASPFB and GDMF and RSAP are evidently more lovable. So much simpler to write...
MyClass, MyConn and MyFunc come to mind...*shudders*
It has certainly been successful in other areas, but as a "just works" freeware replacement for Windows, it's been a bust.
Linux isn't a "just works freeware replacement for Windows", never was. The same as a Shell is not a replacement for CMD and The Gimp is not a replacement for Photoshop...that's something you should get into your brain.
7 billion? Somebody has to actually try to establish why its a 7billion fine.
Scaling. Because it doesn't do anything if you fine a company with 50k if said company makes 3 billion a quarter.
Nobody ever uses network transparency. Well, okay, perhaps a few thousand people do, but rounded to the nearest 1% of the total number of Windows or Mac users, _zero_ people use it.
That's a good idea, let's scratch every feature only a few thousand people use! Maybe you should work with Gnome guys, they have that philosophy, too.
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