On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:54, Don Gould wrote: > We want machines to keep flowing out of retailers like the warehouse with > MS products all over them and nothing but. With these headers
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) in your mail you may well want that, because it gives you a place in the market, but I'd suggest that many of the rest of us really do not want that for one minute. Personally I want to see Linux available pre-installed and supported by the retailers so my fellow citizens can experience what I believe to be a superior computing environment at a lower cost. The fact that we, as a nation, could have that superior computing environment without having to export anything like as many sheep carcasses is a very real beneficial side effect. Notice that the flippin' Minister of Ed. has just blown ~$24 million pissing in Bill Gates' pocket. Makes me hopping mad. > The warehouse is a suppermarket. Really? I was in there only yesterday, and there wasn't a crumb to be seen. I thought that http://www.mcdonalds.com/ were the king there. Nice index page too. The Warehouse should emulate it or something similar. Actually what the Warehouse should do is to jump on the Froogle waggon and make sure the country knows that fact. You know, you really should install a decent mail user agent. Kmail has an interactive spellchecker which I find absolutely invaluable. > How many machines have you guys pulled windows off and thrown linux on to > get some more value out of hardware that was otherwise going to just > collect dust in some old store room? Lots. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
