Works for me. Let's do this in February over some beers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 6:54 AM Subject: moderated debate: Linux vs. Microsoft was Re: [brlug-general]$BIG_NUM (was Supporting Linux vs. Linux Zealotry)
> 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 > >
