As long as you're wearing your asbestos underwear..... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Baudouin Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: moderated debate: Linux vs. Microsoft was Re: [brlug-general] $BIG_NUM (was Supporting Linux vs. Linux Zealotry)
Can I play both sides against the middle? On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:54:30 -0800 (PST), John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heck, let's go even farther than that and have a > moderated debate with a panel of BRLUG members > representing both sides answering questions posed to > the panel. I think we could learn a lot about both > Microsoft and Linux; who does what right and wrong, > technical merits, open standards vs. market support, > technological innovation vs appealing to the mass > market. > > Anyone else think this is a good idea? > > John > > --- Edmund Cramp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Hebert wrote: > > > > >Let's invite Microsoft to give their side. > > > > > > > > At the risk of promising something that my ass can't > > deliver, I'd be > > willing to defend the Microsoft side at a meeting. > > I can't claim to > > have used every Microsoft operating system ... some > > of them were quite > > frankly unusable <Fx thinks> Windows386 </Fx thinks> > > but I believe that > > it's a good system, given the constraints on its > > design. I'm not trying > > to start a flame war here - I'd be happy to discuss > > it (dodge brickbats > > etc) at a meeting if we can have one any night > > except Thursday... > > > > Edmund Cramp > > -- > > > > I work 45 hours a week to be this poor. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > http://my.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
