Microsoft's 12-step Program

[giza]

There's coverage over on Slashdot about Microsoft's 12 Philosophical tenets. To save people from navigating away from here, I've reproduced them here. Enjoy!

1. We admitted we were powerless over our operating system --that our computers had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that an OS greater than windows could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our computers over to GNU/Linux as we understood it.

4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of files with proprietry formats.

5. Admitted to our local LUG and to ourselves the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have Free software remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked the mailing list to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had sent malicious code to, and sent GNU/Linux install CD's.

9. Help such people with the installation wherever possible, except when to do so would result in them being fired.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we had used proprietry programs, formats or protocols promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through slashdot and man pages to improve our conscious contact with GNU/Linux, as we understood it, asking only for knowledge of how to get our hardware working and perform our tasks.

12. Having had an awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other sufferers, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

(Source: Slashdot)

Comments

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

I saw the real ones and could not help but laugh at a few of them, especially this one:

No. 5 is business terms: Microsoft will not retaliate against any computer manufacturer that supports non-Microsoft software.

Yes, I will most certainly see that when I believe it. So what, we're supposed to just think that Microsoft has totally changed? They wouldn't hesitate to pave over anyone or anything that got in their way.