In this article, Mr. Ballmer was quoted at stating the following: "I'm not trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt," [LIE] Ballmer said. "I just think people should go out and research this for themselves." [LIE] Mr. Steve Ballmer, I challenge you to try and see the world of proprietary standards you've created! All because it's easier to not adhere to standards set up by committees, and you decide it's easier to just create your own. You make money off of monopolizing, and using harsh scare tatics to buckle your competition. And now you are battling a sleeping beast, one in which you can only intimidate with your supposite "intelectual property". Your company has only innovated when comes to the use of "XML", and the idea of marking up data isn't originally yours! The rest of your "so-called patented technology" has existed for many years, and was obviously widely used by other operating systems. So it should be public domain, and not owned by your company. One would interject here about the US Patent office, but I'm going for the jugular here!!! You are not making the world a better place, you are only making the world use your shitty applications, which people have grown accustomed to, perhaps they aren't exactly looking outside the box, but it's not your duty to keep out geniune competition. Your operating system's security is worse out there, then 3 years later you decide "oh shit, we better secure our OS." With many companies, and individuals left having to stumble about trying to conform to your newly adopted "service pack" when you failed to test it properly and rush it market, and who suffers? Not your company, only the drones, the drones in which you take advantage of!!! How can you be proud enough to get in front of a room of people and bash Linux, an operating system that created entirely by the people, for the people!!! Sad isn't it? With all of your millions you can't even coordinate enough to get your revision of your glorious Windows XP to function properly with all of the software written for it!!!!!!!!!!!!! But that group of open source people can coordinate and interoperate with eachother, and you're scared of it, but what do you do? Do you try and really innovate, and go into geniune competition? No of course not that would be too hard, so instead you decide to spread mass rumors about how the operation system is insecure? I think the thing Microsoft needs to be insecure about is the fact that from day one, Microsoft has never innovated. I guess one could say you've "redefined" the word innovation to mean, take someone elses idea, change a few things, slap a new name on it, and there ya go!!! So my point being is that Mr. Ballmer is guilty of the same problem his devoted customers, he's ignorant and has no idea what the linux platform has to offer. The masses are truly being led blindly. It's sad when I see how well my open source media player works compared to all of those proprietary players, and of course how stable my open source kernel is compared to that of Windows XP! The masses have no idea what is out there, and they are locked in cause of ignorance. I honestly don't know where to point the finger.....the patent office.....the people....or Microsoft?
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