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Comment BS (Score 1) 19

What they want to build is the MSFT version of NSA's voice transcription database. A database which eventually contains ALL telefone calls of ALL people EVER made. When MSFT has it, NSA will swoop in and demand access. Or they will pay MSFT to give them access. Then if Joe Random becomes politically active, pull up his call history and finger his weak spots. Exploit weak spots to control him. That's the objective of the 1%. Fix: https://jami.net/

Comment All MARKETING (Score 1) 64

Or should I say commercial propaganda ? Windows has not changed essentially since WNT 3.51. What we got with XP, Vista, Win7, Win8-without-Windows and Win10 was just re-fashioned GUIs. The core stayed more or less the same. Of course MSFT lied through all their openings and claimed that each of these versions was "totally super new and super more secure". All lies.

Comment Sure Mr Ballmer (Score 1) 72

Linux and FOSS is "all so confusing", because it is not a single target your billions can corrupt, corrode and eventually destroy. Rather, the FOSS world is very resilient and can suffer the destruction of any single project. You corrupt the Linux kernel ? No problem, we have OpenBSD waiting in the wings. You corrupt LibreOffice ? No problem, we have LaTeX, GNUmeric and many others.

Regarding your F.U.D. about different flavours of Linux: this is 99% of hyperbole mixed with 1% of truth. Linux GUIs are more similar to each other than the crazy stuff MSFT pushed after Windows 7. Windows 8 was actually "Windows OS without Windows on the screen". Mr Shuttleworth tried equally insane stuff and the FOSS community simply routed around Shuttleworth products. THAT is what makes FOSS great - we are not shackled to the insane ideas of a single product designer at MSFT or Canonical. If someone messes up, we simply switch to a proper alternative.

You Microsofters know very well that FOSS is a credible and in many cases more economical (looking at TCO, not just initial investment) alternative to the Windows sphere. That is why you spread lies, doubts, fear with all your propaganda operatives.

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