____/ Oldtech on Sunday 15 July 2007 21:07 : \____
> John Locke wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:00:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Having just gone through a few Web sites (never mind this case of trolling
>>> in multiple Linux newsgroups), he seems to have done quite a bit of
>>> 'legwork', if you know what I mean. This is shameful and it is very sad for
>>> journalism. Stan Beer of ITWire used to do similar things -- provocation
>>> and aggravation.
>>>
>> Yeah...poor guy...he hit every pot hole in the road. Something's fishy
>> here.
>>
> Very fishy! I haven't had a problem with laptops running, then
> installing, Knoppix, Mini-Knoppix, DamnSmallLinux, FreeSBIE, Ubuntu,
> PCLinuxOS, or Mepis, yet! Hand out the liveCDs in clubs, stores, during
> short demos on other peoples' machines.
>
> Been doing LiveCDroms since Knoppix was introduced here. I believe that
> I have run over 5,000 machines with LiveCDroms, converted about 1200
> personally, for schools, businesses, and individuals.
>
> The guy might just be the poster boy for Windoze Lusers who purposely
> find flaws with any install, having no experience.
No, the guy is just doing his job. He works at DisinformationWeek, which he
helps turn into Gutter Press.
Misleading InformationWeek GPLv3 article
,----[ Quote ]
| Linus's position is clear. He's repeatedly said that he'd use GPLv3 in
| certain situations if there was a practical advantage, but he prefers v2 over
| v3. That's fine. I prefer v3, but v2 is still a great licence.
`----
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/misleading_informationweek_gplv3_article
InformationWeek Declares SCO v. IBM Over and IBM Won. Huh?
,----[ Quote ]
| What is going on at InformationWeek? Let me guess. Nah. You are sophisticated
| enough to figure it out. But I think it's clear there is afoot an attempt to
| create the impression of some schism in the FOSS world.
`----
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070713192403106
There have been many more examples recently.
> I would be interested to see how he handles the 3 hours of labor, and 30
> reboots, necessary to install, upgrade, apply drivers, protect with AV
> softwares, and tweak, XP!
>
> Then, there are 315 LiveCDs at http://livecdlist.com which he wouldn't
> know...
315 for Mr. Wolfe to lose some sleep. His bread and butter is Windows. Windwos
is dying due to the Internet and Free software. Mr. Wolfe's job is at
jeopardy, so he attacks the threat. Linux should be flattered at this evidence
of fear.
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~~ Best of wishes
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