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On 3/24/2024 9:42 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> DFS wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On 3/22/2024 9:01 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>>      https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/dynamics-of-software/9780735623194/
>>>
>>> The author of this Microsoft book crowed and crowed about how they kicked
>>> Borland's ass.
>>
>> Linux lusers have been - feverishly and fruitlessly - trying to kick
>> MS's ass for decades.
> 
> Tell us again which system dominates the supercomputer market?

Looks like Unix to me.



> Linux has already kicked Microsoft ass :-D


You forgot the first stanza in my Ode To Crapware:

A is for "advocate", who freeloads the code
Their shameless hypocrisy we do like to goad
Each Monday am it's Windows they boot
Free software means nothing in the face of big loot