An Open Letter To The Linux Enthusiasts. 17400

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That's nice. Maybe you can take a shot at addressing the point instead of making up new ones that have no relationship to what was raised.

I'll help by rephrasing it: They didn't have a need to hide behind linux until they were attacked. They aren't being attacked. Why are they still hiding behind linux? Why aren't they being covered by their own "superior" products instead of hiding behind linux? Why, with their billion$ and billion$, can't they show the world the way to true enlightenment by operating behind their own garbage?

Don't try the "everybody else would need to spend billions" crap. They handle way more than a single monopoly, and their capitalization doesn't cost billions for each one:

Pay particular attention to the 'Market Cap (mil)' line.

I see:

"Linux is crap. Linux is viral. Linux is a cancer. We're faster, cheaper, safer, more stable, more attentive to customers' needs, patch faster and less often, but linux is *still* our first choice when we're under attack. Because we can modify the things that are awful."

I don't know. Let's see.

I see. They couldn't do this themselves, despite the fact they were already handling things prior to the attack, they have offices all over the world, many of them with servers that are serving things, they have a big need to, shall we say, 'eat their own slop' if they expect to sell it to others, but they'll just keep their stuff behind linux. Not because it's better or safer or more stable or faster or cheaper or easier to administer or anything else, but because it's *easier* for them that way.

They've been known to pbutt along a lot of MICROS~1 pap-speak unscrutinized. It means little.

That wasn't the original question. Just because you tossed that in doesn't mean the original question doesn't still stand.

No. Akamai handles far more than MICROS~1 would have to handle. Akamai has a lot of customers. The Redmonites only have to deal with their own stuff.

I ask questions, you tap-dance. Others ask questions, you tap-dance. I ask again, you tap-dance. Others ask again, you tap-dance.

It's a common theme. Every now and then you toss in a few new steps, or recycle some old ones you haven't used for awhile. But the dance goes on and on.

-- Any dimwit can run Windows XP. And they usually do.