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13:29 - Wingots
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/39826.html
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Via Kris; I've never heard that term used before, but it has an interesting way of rolling off the tongue, in the same way that "Macolytes" does.
It appears to have been coined by Paul Murphy, a Linux veteran and columnist with a tale of a hapless friend and precisely where Windows has got him. If "Bernie" doesn't have a Ballmer haircut, I'll buy a hat and eat it.
Also some good observations about the deceptiveness of Mac market share numbers, and the nature of the justifications used to defend a Windows installation. It veers uncomfortably near a couple of fallacies of its own—for example, that a Linux server is more predictably stable than a Windows daily-use laptop because of Linux versus Windows, rather than because one is a server and one is a daily-use laptop, which is a real factor—but overall it's a valuable read.
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Brian Tiemann
