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Re: [News] Microsoft Employee Switches to GNU/Linux?

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Employee Switches to GNU/Linux?
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:57:50 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1838540.TyEW9u38gJ@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> When did I become such a tool?
> 
> ,----[  ]
> | Six years ago I began working for Microsoft.
> | 
> | The ways I thought about my time changed. How I thought about my
> | career changed. How I thought about my place in the world changed.
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | Moving my family computer from Windows XP to some form of Linux. A
> | symbolic gesture more than anything - but one that will force me to do
> | those things I so sorely miss.
> `----
> 
> http://makingtheswitch.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/when-did-i-become-such-a-tool/

Excellent article. I especially liked this quote:

.----
| What was able to drain the marrow of life from my body and leave only
| hollowed-out shell of the man who once occupied this space?
|
| Six years ago I began working for Microsoft.
`----

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-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 04:56:29 up 13 days,  2:28,  5 users,  load average: 2.05, 1.28, 0.76

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