“Utter nonsense”

A Russian teacher was fined half his monthly wage for using pirated copies of Microsoft's Windows operating system and office suite. The suit was brought to court, not by Microsoft, but by Russian prosecutors. President Vladimir Putin called it “utter nonsense”. (CNN: Teacher fined for Microsoft piracy)

Russin TV portrayed Alexander Ponosov as a hero and former president Michael Gorbachev reportedly asked Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to pardon the Russian teacher.

There is an easy and convenient way to avoid this kind of shit. Dump Microsoft's Windows, the real one and the pirated one, and switch to Linux. There are more than 500 different versions of the Linux operating system. One flavor will certainly suit your hardware and your personality.

Yes, dear Vladimir, Microsoft is “utter nonsense”. Just dump it.

Dirty Windows

Windows Vista went on sale yesterday, ... in bulk for businesses. Ordinary people like you and me have to wait till January 30. Why is that?

And why did it take the largest software company in the world five years to come up with something new? And what makes Vista so blisteringly great people should fork out hard earned money to make the richest man in the world even richer? Why would companies risk mayhem by upgrading to the latest ugly duck from Redmond?

Anything Vista can do, hundreds of Linux distro's can also do. Not by running to the store and opening your wallet, but by a few clicks of the mouse. I have said it before, Windows is the black Ford-T, Linux is the colorful rainbow. I am using Linspire 5-0 right now, but am considering to give Mandriva 2007 a spin. And Fedora Core 6 perhaps. OpenSuse ruled itself out since Novell made a dirty deal with the Microsoft Devil.

Anyone running to kiss Gates' ass must be mad. What's so special about Vista? Give Linux a try! Linspire, Freespire, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Elive (from Belgium), Nonux (from Holland), Xandros, Fedora, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix, CentOS, Kanotix, Red Hat, Turbolinux, Red Flag, 64Studio and more than 500 other Linux distributions to choose from, to experiment with! And most of them are free! And those who charge you money such as Linspire, Xandros and Mandriva offer a much better deal than the Microsoft cheaters.

There are two devils in the U.S. One on the West coast and one on the East coast. Dump them both. Impeach Bush, impeach Gates!

And if you don't break your windows, at least give them a cleaning. Go Linux!