Did you ever notice that the “mainstream media” go out of their way to kiss Microsoft’s ass (especially with backhanded ‘compliments’ like the above article.) The “Mainstream” is intent on sucking Bill Gate’s cock, so they hype up Microsoft’s vanishingly-small ’successes’, and continually downplay Linux at every opportunity.

It’s a goddamn shame, and it’s way past time for people to get aggressive about Linux advocacy. (A good step in that direction would be to stop wtih the moronic debate over “Linux vs. Gnu/Linux” and “Opensource Vs. free software” — I don’t believe in “better living through wordgames”. Political correctness is bullshit, no matter where it originates. These pernicious little wordgames make the Linux “scene” look stupid and cultish (which lets Microsoft look more credible than they otherwise would.)

And I really wonder whether the Linux machines are going to change that. Linux itself does make the system belong to its user, but Dell may change that to match the state of affairs in Windows Dell world.