Shocking....!! Micro$0 ft is planning to propose dual-boot with Android OS.
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While FSF campaigns to free a computer from Windblowzz (Parody Courtesy: SuperTramp83), Micro$0 ft is looking the other way around; Luring OEMs to manufacture smartphones that is capable of dual booting a Micro$0 ft OS with the custom Android OS[1].
This is a real threat to Replicant OS, a 100% free Android distribution which was founded to give back smartphone users control over their computing.
************* We should fight them tooth and nail. *************
Source(s):
[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2107863/microsoft-shakes-up-windows-phone-with-dual-boot-android-hybrids-and-free-licenses.html
This isn't a "threat to Replicant--" Replicant will still exist, and won't lose any users over this. The people that use Replicant are people that care about libre software, and probably wouldn't care if MS dual-booted Android or not.
This is just business as usual. No news to see here.
Come on, people. The company is called "Microsoft" and the operating system is called "Microsoft Windows". Why do people always insist on using malapropisms? It's not that Voldemort founded this company and you are not allowed to say its real name without being punished or anything. Just my 2 cents...
@Topic: I also can't see a big threat to Replicant here.
Please spare the harry potter wisdom. If you don't hate micro$oft, you must be ignorant of their history.
I know the history of GNU/Linux and I know the history of Microsoft. I'm not saying Microsoft was sent from the heavens but I don't see why I have to "hate" something in order to be part of this community. If that's a precondition, however, I might rather look for an alternative.
And even if I would hate Microsoft, I would still call it by its correct name. I could come up with some metaphor now but I don't want to fulfill Godwin's law yet.
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Mzee, with all due respect, calling Microshit Fiendowns like I just did, can not be interpreted as "hate". Rather "disrespect". Yes, I have a total disrespect for Bill Gaines and his malware..meh..
cheers :)
I was referring to lembas' comment. Don't get me wrong: I also don't like Windows at all. Otherwise I wouldn't be here. But one has to admit that Microsoft also did some few good things in the recent past (like freeing the .Net platform). And yes, they also did many bad things and they still do. Everything has a good side and a bad side.
@Disrespect: What about Bill Gates? Do you also disrespect the way he distributes his money these days (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/)? Here once again: The good side is that he helps to fund research for finding drugs for many diseases; one bad side is that he teams up with Monsanto. But this is getting a bit off-topic now...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is just as sinister as It's founders:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035105_Bill_Gates_Monsanto_eugenics.html
This article talks about Involvement in Monsanto, Eugenics through Planned Parenthood and the like. Not to mention Bill's push for the Common Core Education system in the U.S. which is about data mining children to pigeon-hole them into the jobs that a corporate or government entity thinks they are deemed fit for. He would have it that future generations would not have the same opportunities that he had to create Microsoft.
Don't be fooled by what the media claims they are about.
Disgusting.
That's exactly what I stated in my post. The Gates Foundation does some good (funding vaccine research for example) and some bad (working with Monsanto for example). Nothing in this world is purely good and nothing is purely bad. Everything has two sides.
Bill Gates, can't be a good person.
The only thing that Microsoft did good is Microsoft Comfort Keyboard.
LOL! I got tired of that long time ago. Hey let's say Microshort!! So that means we are on the same boat!! Yeah, we rule bru
BTW: I downvoted your message just because it has +1 and my hate doesn't go to microsoft but to the useless spammerbegone-tool that was born to be missuse (Yes Miss Susane)
edit: I downvoteed me too :-D I'm so happy now
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fair enough -> Microblows Wring-ons
Micro$$soft Bugindows NSA edition
I think you mean NSA/Micro$$soft Bugindows Snooping edition.
LoL, yes, something like that!
Windows + NSA Kernel (Windows/NSA)
I have one concern: I'm pretty sure Microsoft requires any ARM device running Windows to be a tyrant, so this could increase the number of tyrant devices on the market.
If it weren't for that, I wouldn't consider this to be a particular problem. Android, as it is usually distributed, is not libre.
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