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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim McKenzie
> I might suggest a change in topic... Or perhaps a new mailing
> list for rants
> such as this. For those of you that have problems upgrading your
> packages,
> and especially for the ones that are starting to compare
> MandrakeSoft so a
> certain large monopoly type "business" let me point out one simple fact.
> Since the dawn of computers it has been the end users responsibilty to
> upgrade their software as they see fit.
And therein lies the problem with trying to bring Linux into the
fold of consumer Operating Systems.
The same problem that makes Microsofts offerings less than stable.
Its the 'P' in 'PC'
And I don't mean 'Political'
;)
The concept of the 'Personal Computer' where the user is assumed
to own the machine and can therefore do anything to it that they
want to.
It'll all end in tears!
