Ubuntu 15.10

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 15:49:16 UTC 2015


On 8 October 2015 at 00:36, Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone is in shock over this:
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1338851
>

I call BS.

Among other things, it's error-filled:

> With most of the world's Web sites running on Linux servers

... true enough...

> and most of those servers running on Ubuntu, it's definitely a large market sector.

[[Citation needed]]

I've not heard of such figures and I suspect that other distros
(Debian, CentOS, even RHEL and SLE) are as widespread in such roles.

> Steve Ballmer famously called the OS a cancer.

No he didn't. He called the *GPL* cancerous.

> Since then, the company has unleashed attacks on many fronts, using the courts and media disinformation to shut down the competition. It didn't work.

Oh, I don't know -- it destroyed GNOME 2 fairly effectively.

> The most profitable division is its cloud computing service.

[[Citation needed]]

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