____/ William Poaster on Thursday 30 August 2007 10:09 : \____
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:36:04 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ William Poaster on Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:24 : \____
>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:54:55 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> ____/ William Poaster on Wednesday 29 August 2007 11:00 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> It was on, or about, Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:47:05 +0100, that as I was
>>>>> halfway through a large jam doughnut, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 28 August 2007 19:00 : \____
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>>> ____/ [H]omer on Saturday 18 August 2007 12:40 : \____
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Who am I replying to that is also a troll?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Bailo is back on the Troll list. I don't know whether or not to
>>>>>>>>> keep him there; he's up and down like a yo-yo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's what I suspected. He's not harmful and he stopped that
>>>>>>>> Novell stock rah-rah a couple of months ago. :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He's always been unpredictable here... much better than he was,
>>>>>>> though. I was on the verge of dropping him from my kfile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was once told that he had been accused of bad behviour long before
>>>>>> I subscribed to COLA (late 2005).
>>>>>
>>>>> Bailo nymshifted frequently, & sometimes several times a day, posting
>>>>> imbecilic messages. That's when I binned him, & he's still in there.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks (also to Peter), at least I now know. I also remember someone
>>>> saying that he brought the Relf troll to COLA.
>>>
>>> Yes, he did. I'd actually forgotten about Relf, till PK mentioned him.
>>
>> I've just spotted jbailo on CNET. He brought his Novell rah-rah to their
>> TalkBack and he also does it in COLA today. Speaking of Novell:
>>
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/29/gnome-mono-plan/
>>
>> Scary, but probably all true. Steer away from Novell.
>
> I dumped SuSE when Novell signed with MS. It was easy to change over. I'm
> running (K)Ubuntu, PCLOS & one or two other Linux distros on my machines,
> as well as FreeBSD. I've no intention of returning to using SuSE.
I'm still tempted by MEPIS myself, maybe even Debian (from which MEPIS is once
again derived, after it threw out Ubuntu).
Choice is great. It also forces those that play not to act selfishly. There's
virtually no lock-in. Once strike and you're out.
--
~~ Best of wishes
Microsoft loves competition.
"I’d be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral. I could do it
Friday afternoon but not Saturday. I could do it pretty much any time the
following week."
--bradsi, Microsoft
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