Ann, sure makes a lot of sense to me. I think what gets me the most about Billy boy's piece of junk is that everybody assumes you're running it. Whenever you buy a piece of hardware, or sign up for some type of computer based service today, 99% of the time the question is "what version of windows do you run". I love the answer I give, "I don't run windows". After that, there is that stunned silence, as in "well, what else is there to run". After a bit of suspense, I relish saying "I run Slackware gnu/linux". Then, most often, there is another silence of puzzlement, as in "why would you want to run that when microsoft can give you the universe". Then, there may be the question of "what is Slackware". Some people know about redhat and debian, but after that, it seems like those are the only 2 gnu/linux distros ever invented. Once I was walking with another student who I ran into on the way to class on my university campus. We naturally got to talking about our majors and so forth. Since I am a computer science major, this person eventually asked me "are you going to get certified by microsoft"? My answer was "no, I hate microsoft and their products/services". This person was rather taken it back, and I bet any other cs major he might have talked to probably told him that they would be happy to lick microsoft's boots in contentment. Ok, enough of my little rant. Greg On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:30:52PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > I, as an ordinary user of Linux, have to comment on this thread. I am > sick and damned tired of deleting these virus messages from my inbox! > I'm tired to death of looking at: my details, your details, your > application and thank you! Yeh, "thank you" for aggravation, for > inconvenience, for continued harrassment, and on and on. Yes, if you > want somebody to back you up in a post to the media about this > horrendousness over the past week, I'd be happy to do so. > > Somebody asked on one of the "blind" lists why we are satisfied with > inferior products and persist in being grateful for shoddiness in > development of adaptive equipment and software. the questioner when > on to say that if the ordinary public would have this kind of stuff, > they wouldn't put up with it for an hour. My response is *wrong*! > Mr. John Q. Public is willing to put up with a shoddy OS that has poor > memory usage, poor file utilities, poor security protection, and is > constantly being touted as the best thing since sliced bread! Well, > if even I can get frustrated because I have to delete a third of my > email because it is full of viruses, then why isn't John Q. Public > upset? Why? Because John Q. Public is an ignoramus, a moron, a > creton. So long as Microsoft does what they want it to do, they're > content. They're like little children, they don't know any better. > > Sure, I'll say whatever you like if it will encourage people to demand > decent servers and a decent OS. But until then, I'm going to be a > Windows teacher because John Q. Public insists that that's what he > wants to learn. He will pay to be taught to use an inferior system, > so why rock the boat, teach 'em what they want and put up with > deleting messages. > > Not sure this piece makes a lot of sense, but hey, maybe some of it > does. > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
