Thanks Manny, Nice to hear a friendly voice as I work out my PR debacle.
:~)

> 
> All this domination talk is getting me...
> 
> BTW I know what you mean Paul about getting your moneys worth.
> Although I've been using linux only for my daily use, I always feel
> the urge to run winxp, w2k, or some other flavor in a vm just for the
> temporary urge to see what the rest of the world see's in ms.
> 
> Unfortunately I haven't had success in defenestrating the rest of the
> household.  Wife and kids constantly running the veeesta stuff, bad,
> bad..
> 
> --Manny
> 
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> No, its about wanting freedom/choice. Not about dominating.
> >>
> >> okay, that is a better way of putting exactly what i was thinking.
> >
> > Yeah I get freedom and domination confused sometimes too.   ;-)
> >
> >>
> >> The communication of the word dominate can be intended in more than one 
> >> way.
> >
> > Perhaps it can be communicated in more then one way but dominate only
> > has one definition as far as I know.
> >
> >> Although Goliath (like Microsoft) was the dominant figure in the age old
> >> story,
> >
> > dominant is an adjective in that sentence.
> >
> >> David dominated the scene by wacking Goliath in the head with a stone.
> >> Therefore, Microsoft, the unjust, corrupt, filthy lucre, monopoly may just
> >> be
> >> dominated if by some chance linux prevails.
> >
> > dominated is a verb, both times.
> >
> >>
> >> Which, IMO, would be much along the lines of freedom of choice.
> >
> >
> > Dominant does have more then one definition one being "along the
> > lines" to dominate but the other refers to music chord as I recall.  I
> > pretty sure that makes them two different words.  They do have a
> > similar root (cheesy *nix pun)
> >
> >>
> >> So if you want to argue about agreeing with me....well...... then....
> >> okay....I guess
> >
> > I do but only because we don't.
> >
> >>
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