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Re: [News] What Happens After Switching People to GNU/Linux...

Verily I say unto thee, that Sinister Midget spake thusly:
> On 2008-07-09, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> claimed:

>> "Keep in mind that while she is a very intelligent and independent
>> woman, she is by no means ´a computer person¡, and prior to her
>> conversion had only very limited exposure to Linux."
>> 
>> Very intelligent.  How, precisely, does that represent the average
>> computer user?  Average users are, by definition, also average
>> intelligence.  What a "very intelligent" person can easily do and
>> what an average intelligence person can easily do are two different
>> things.
> 
> She's "not a computer person". One can be extremely intelligent and
> not know the first thing about simple things, or understand anything
> about computers.

Splorf!

Did Fuddie just admit that Windows users are stupid?

Gosh darn. First he calls Bill Gates a liar, and now this!

Stay tuned for Fuddie's first ever Linux *advocacy* post.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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