* Jim Richardson peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> * amicus_curious peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>> You folks just look like the pikers you are with your sniveling about Gates,
>>> Microsoft, and Dell in the charitable works arena. The biggest charity you
>>> guys have ever mustered is the Ubuntu guy giving away his software. Right
>>> after he spent some $30 million on a ticket to the ISS! Beggars and
>>> freeloaders are never going to amount to much in this world.
>>
>> So why, then, do you cohabit with us for significant amounts of time?
>
> he's waiting for his latest pirate copy of some commercial application
> to download, and with the network slowdown Vista causes when he tries
> playing his pirated music, he can't listen to that and get the download
> done this year.
You know how some people know how to sugar-coat bad news?
amicus knows how to coat good news with excrement.
Also note that his approach to a discussion is, for the most part,
negative. He should be happy that Microsoft is getting some
competition, which only improves their motivation to improve their
products. Even DFS understands this. Yet amicus does not.
He dismisses GNU/Linux as any kind of competition for Microsoft, even
while Microsoft writes memos about "the threat of Linux", and even while
Wal-Mart, Asustek, and others are building and selling Linux PCs to
consumers.
It is apparently his hope that readers in the newsgroup will read only
his postings.
--
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
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