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Re: [News] Review of Knoppix GNU/Linux 6.0

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 04 March 2009 23:31 : \____

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
> this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>>> You're supposed to *suffering* with Linux!
>>
>> That's what Windows Waterboard Edition is for (in a VM).
> 
> Torture metaphors!
> 
>> everytime you say things like this i just think of that cult of people
>> who send around .doc files. i dont want to communicate with people who
>> talk in .doc format, but they do not wish to use something else, so
>> they discredit those without word. --Ed, c.o.l.a.
> 
> I set up a homeowner's wiki, and noted that the Word files could be read by
> OpenOffice.  One board member downloaded it and used it, but he sent his
> files in ODF format.  Another board member bitched, she didn't want to have
> install more software <yeesh>.  He ignored her pathetic whining.
> 
> The sig reminds me of feelings about the average consumer's knowledge of
> what's happening in the consumer computing arena, as well as in net
> neutrality.
> 
> I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens
> who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known
> something of what has been passing in their time.
> -- H. Truman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3LSyck0YTE

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

Roy S. Schestowitz      | Open syntax, Open API's, Open standards
http://Schestowitz.com  |  GNU is Not UNIX  |     PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
      http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
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