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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 17:52 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 25 July 2006 18:02 \__
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>>>> Surely you're not that naive? Microsoft hand out software, and
>>>> generously "allow" it to be used at home in order to lock a new
>>>> generation of poor children and their teachers into the Microsoft
>>>> product. They absolutely do /not/ want anyone learning about OSS,
>>>> because they know that when it comes to spending money, people would
>>>> realise that they didn't need Microsoft at all - free software would do
>>>> just as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> Precisely. It's as simple as that.
>>>
>>
>> I kfiled Oliver Wong yesterday when he declared that the card problem
>> he'd had was completely and utterly invented - he was actually claiming
>> to be trying to fix a problem that he didn't have, and was complaining
>> that he couldn't find a fix for it!
>
>
> Your fuse is short (don't think laterally). Given some of the garbage that
> come from real trolls, I can only think of high volume of messages (traffic)
> in COLA as being a motive.
>
Trolling comes in a variety of guises; one is the convincing poster who
gradually reels people in. Inventing a problem you don't have and then
complaining that you cannot fix it is a troll of the highest order.
Many people had replied to that thread, offering suggestions.
>
>> It stinks of Sn*t, to me.
>
>
> But Snit uses Mac OS. And I thought Snit was a necrophile too. That's what
> Grey once said.
>
Yes and yes. The approach looked similar, though.
There was another discussion going where he transformed "government
should use OSS so that everyone else gets a choice" into "illegal to
use proprietary software". I think he's been fed the marketing stuff,
and is trying to regurgitate it.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
"A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a
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