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Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) released

  • Subject: Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) released
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:09:30 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:19 \__
> 
>> chrisv <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>> I have to wonder why Linux users refuse to pay reasonable amounts for
>>>>>> software they claim is great?  Is it a case of being cheap?  Broke? 
>>>>>> Greedy?
>>>>>> All 3?  There's no other way to explain it.
>>>>
>>>>> Except the obvious one -- the software is /offered/ for free.
>>>>
>>>>By eck, he's getting desperate...
>>>>He hasn't used this argument since it was bashed out of him with a clue
>>>>stick 3 years ago. And looky here, it's back, again!
>>> 
>>> You kidding?  I have the POS kill-filed and I still see the above LIE,
>>> with slightly different phrasing, used over and over.
>>> 
>>> Why everyone has not kill-filed the vile, worthless, asshole, I do not
>>> know.
>>> 
>> 
>> It would clean up this group no end were such trolls to be ignored.
>> Perhaps we should have another stab at the Faq, with such questions
>> addressed properly, and posted weekly again.  The FAQ idea was a good
>> one.  It also quite correctly states that DFS shouldn't be here anyway.
> 
> I think someone should post it on a weekly basis again. HPT has been busy
> recently...
> 

I was thinking in terms of updating it, too, to handle some of the more
recent issues.  It could include some remarks around owned consultants,
bloggers, astroturfers and so on, too, as well as how media-bias is
achieved.

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