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Re: [News] GNU/Linux Desktop for Senior People Has Competition: *Another* GNU/Linux Business

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____/ Attila on Sunday 07 Mar 2010 06:56 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> PCs for technophobes go head-to-head
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> "Gnu/Linux Desktop for Senior People [sic]"???
> I don't see why they bother. There has been a perfectly fine distro
> for "seniors" around for years. It's called "Debian" (my preference is
> for a Testing/Unstable blend).
> 
> This is another of the extremely offensive, patronising views of us
> "seniors" that infest the web these days. Do you really need to give
> them further prominence, Roy? Does this represent your opinion of us
> "seniors"?

That's how they advertise their products. I was trying to come up with a polite term
and I wrote "senior". Too tactless?

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