Just joined this groups hey porcelain?
Janet
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From: "Armitage Shanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Nice one numero seis! I just lurve this group!!
>
> AS
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> --- No6 wrote:
>>
>> OK Jim, most of us here don't have a clue about what
>> you mean by that
>> last post, sorry mate :( What we do know is that
>> Rick likes Linux and
>> you like M$, but you aren't really a fan of M$ or
>> something along those
>> lines so lets leave it at that, especially if you
>> both don't take the
>> cold steel to the badger in which case neither of
>> you are going to win
>> the argument.
>>
>> The way I see it is that Linux is virtually free ...
>> period, and comes
>> with lots of free software and no constant critical
>> updates, patches,
>> service packs, AV, FW etc etc BUT it is a bit
>> difficult to use when we
>> have been weaned on M$. If we started to teach the
>> use of Linux in our
>> schools instead of M$ or in addition to M$, maybe
>> both OS would compete
>> on a level playing field.
>>
>> The other point worth considering is that people in
>> third world
>> countries can not afford to get on the M$ ladder (OS
>> and other
>> software), and if they do uncle Bill dumps the OS
>> and introduces a new
>> one for more mega bucks.
>>
>> Your paraphrase of Churchill, 'Windows is a very bad
>> OS.... except for
>> all the others.' I assume comes from his quote about
>> democracy ie
>>
>> It has been said that democracy is the worst form of
>> government except
>> all the others that have been tried.
>>
>> Personally, I prefer this Churchill quotation:
>>
>> Every day you may make progress. Every step may be
>> fruitful. Yet there
>> will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening,
>> ever-ascending,
>> ever-improving path. You know you will never get to
>> the end of the
>> journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only
>> adds to the joy and
>> glory of the climb.
>>
>> IMHO give Linux a go folks ... enjoy the climb.
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