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Re: [News] Dell Buys Binary Blobs for GNU/Linux PCs

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer
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on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:50:41 +0100
<3fgfl5-r8c.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb. 
>> <thick_as_a_brick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:24:12 -0400
>> <1u5tthl10wn5c$.10keqd1xe5tsf$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:30:55 +0100, Homer wrote:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

[snippage for brevity]

>>>> http://boycotnovell.com/2008/06/07/ubuntu-remix-c0decs/
>>> 
>>> Why do you spew that awful hate site around?
>
> Why do you spew /your/ awful hate around?
>
>> Yeah, Homer, you really should put in an advert for Microsoft Windows
>> Vista there, instead. ;-)
>
> Egads no. I don't hate Microsoft enough to embarrass them with a /Vista/
> advert. Surely an XP advert would be more appropriate. Or Win3.11 even.

Vista.  Because you really did want that PC to run like an 8088, for
nostalgia's sake.  :-)

>
>> Or maybe SuSE....
>
> I'd have to check, but I think SuSE is now just a service pack for XP.

XP SP4?  Heh.

Or:

"The instructions said 'Windows XP or better', so I installed Linux."

>
>> </sarcasm>
>> 
>> ObSheesh: Sheesh.
>
> That's not an object, it's an expression. ;-P
>

The "Ob" is short for "Obligatory". ;-)

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