a qualified medical professional. Don't worry, I work with hospital staff physicians and administration on a daily basis, they take good care of me.
I'm not out to find every tiny thing I can wrong with Linux based OSes, and anyone that simply gets vuln reports knows there are hundreds. Not once have I posted any of those shortcomings, security problems and bad code in many cases. Not once.
I will openly share my thoughts on what I believe would happen to the economy if a free product were to replace the current humongous service industry and retail industry in IT. I simply fear there would be a major loss of jobs and the health of the economy would suffer.
We see post after post about "crippled" Windows and other BS that the same person would never apply to any other product in life, or if they do have a problem with most every company with retail products having various models, functionality and price points, it's only MS they seem to target. If that were their actual problem, they would have the same feelings toward Apple and IBM.
They have zero tolerance and lack any clear objectivity, thus their lives are wrapped up in posting MS rants. These are the people that really need help. Even the man who originally wrote the Linux kernel and still writes code for it, is totally against the radical bashing we see on these sites.
And these people wonder why they never get called back.
Technologically speaking, I think there are a small number of Linux based OSes that are close to being ready for mainstream. And I would be glad to see them competing on the market. Advertising would do for Linux based systems what 20 years of an MS attack campaign has failed to touch. What normal, well adjusted person would want an OS, free or not, that is noted for having scary religious radicals as it's spokespeople? Obviously, nobody. When Linux does gain acceptance to any real degree, those people will still think they had something to do with helping it, rather than the reality of holding it back. They've only accomplished to give it a black market thug type feel and they are totally oblivious to it.
OEMs have been harrassed on here for not doing charity work and offering PCs with Linux. I think they are sick of it so they offer a few models buried on their site somewhere. Why would a for profit company want to take on the cost of giving away "free" OSes? They do have to pay their employees, and jobs are important to all OEMs, nobody wants to have to layoff workers. In turn these for profit OEMs contribute a huge amount to the economy and job market, both huge positives and the reason capitalism, even with times like now where a small minority of people in charge got greedy, is the best economic system in the world, as the U.K., Canada, Autralia, the U.S. and others demonstrate.
How is Dell supposed to pay the workers that install Linux OSes and configure them to user's specs? If that sale doesn't pick up service, which it won't most of the time right now as the majority buying them are Linux users and don't need it, the OEM loses money. Simple as that. Why would they subject themselves to that?
Why would not savvy businessmen have ponied up for building a Linux distribution network by now if it had anything to offer the market? THAT, to me is the big question and a very strong indicator that there is little money to be made with Linux.
And obviously w/o money to be made, there is also a very gloom outlook on jobs and money into the market and government to pay bills by way of taxes. It doesn't offer a market driven economy enough to bother.
Now if Linux based OSes could be monetized and sold on the market as another competitor, that would be GREAT!. I've never said anything different than that.
However, can you say you are fine with Microsoft continuing to do well when they release great products? Be truthful now.
By the way, you seem to have some hitory and personal knowledge of blocked bile ducts. Hmmm. Never been a problem here, sorry.
I suspect that whoever created the Ubuntu default theme was suffering from that problem however. Turd brown sure is an odd choice for your default desktop color, but then it might be perfect for those that use it.
As for your "get help" plea, what kind do you need and how can we get to you?
