* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 18 March 2008 18:56 : \____
>
>> And the WinTrolls have the nerve to suggest that /Linux/ users don't
>> value their time.
>>
>> LOL! How ironic.
>
> It's a lie that Microsoft has been trying to market for years. Moments ago I
> needed a new browser. apt-get to the rescue. It took me no more than 10
> seconds to have it installed. How long would that have taken with Windows?
About the same, once you located the browser you wanted, assuming it
were even available on Windows <grin>.
--
About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay
for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to
steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then
we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
-- Bill Gates, Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in
"Gates, Buffett a bit bearish" CNET News (2 July 1998) [1]
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