It’s no secret that there is not a shortage of n00bs world-wide. They live on the same planet as us, same cities and so on… But sometimes, you get exceptional cases, and sometimes it even becomes an exception among the exceptions. This case that I am sharing with you here, is undoubtedly one of those, and here I begin :
First and foremost : TAKE ANY BEVERAGES AND DRINKS AWAY, I GIVE ABSOLUTE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND FOR NOT CHOKING, HEART ATTACKS SERIZURES AND ANY OTHER PROBLEMS.
(I found this on a website and went through the trouble of translating it into English : )
It’s a lot of marketing farce about some people making a 72,000 line program in VB putting it on Windows, and calling the whole thing ”National OS”, here, they attempt at badmouthing Linux, which is aimed to become the Iranian National Operating System in the long run by the government efforts, and that’s what motivated me to write this stuff, because fraud was becoming commercial libel, so they would sell their “OS” at the quarter of the price of an Original Vista Windows License (Hint : No copyright for US made software)
And here it comes :
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And this is why Linux “has no right to be called Windows” :
1 – An Operating System that cannot have “professional” control over the memory, and allows you to access other memory locations using offsets with or without having the security permissions is not Windows.
2 – An operating system that does not have a powerful data managing software like the “Shell in Windows”
3 – An operating system that doesn’t have a Kernel Like XP
4 – An operating system that cannot work in networked or network-less mode [ed : I have NO idea what he means] or a graphical mode, is not Windows. (And there are people that claim you can make Linux like XP mode (ed : What in the name of…) operate in an event based system with a desktop, because Linux is command line based and you should do a LOT of work to make it event based (ed : If Linus Torvals would ever read this 
) (And those people working in Automation know what it means)([ed : I ommit this one because I cannot really understand what he means, even in the n00b compatibility mode, but roughtly something about accusing Iranian government of trying to claim linux of their own or something, again completely baseless, actually the Linux adoption program, not matter how lame and patheticly run it is and no matter how many millions of dollars has been gobbled up in the process, NEVER claim that, they actually say they will not make a distro but will supply resources to them])
5 – An OS that hasn’t had even a bit of it written by an Iranian (ed. : What the ?) can be called a national operating system ?
6 – An operating system that has been an Italian student’s project (Implying as if it was something university related) can ever become something national, even though some companies might have completed it over time.
7 – Most importantly, where is the firewall and the security system for Linux (ed : Wait, the best part is coming up), yeah you keep bragging about it’s security, the security that is gained from being open source is worthless, because no one wastes his time over something this worthless.Because you can use the source to complete it , or attack it.
8 – Another important thing is that over %90 (ed. Number was rounded*) of the software are Windows based and cannot be ran on Linux, that’s a reason for superiority in itself, Apple, with all it’s power, has failed to offer an operating system design that can compete with XP or Vista.
9 – (Ed : Something about Linux adoption being extremely difficult.)
Finally he adds : “I am not saying that Linux is not of use to anybody, a percentage of the professional users that are less than %10 world-wide, and same way that C is open source and is the most secure programming language that has been and will be.(Because of being close to the assembly and it’s direct translation to EXE)
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* Due to various reasons I am not going to give a link to these gems, even though they should deserve it, also some intelligent Iranian people on some forums took the flamebait and got into the flamewar with them, I doubt they would like becoming known over that. But the moment they go into action and try to bring it into the market…
