Andrew, you just trumped my pending post on "The Brain as explained by John Cleese". Sustain
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:51:07 -0500, "Andrew Oulton" <[email protected]> said: > > I wouldn't draw the same parallel. Repo's make common software > acquisition EASY... bu t all of these distro's give you the complete > toolset to install whatever you want from wherever you want. That's what > compiling is for :) > > Andrew > > > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:49:01 -0500 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [MLUG] OT Re: i-pad, i-phone, i this that and the other > > i-thing. > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:16:57AM -0500, Yanik Doucet wrote: > > > > > >> another interesting point of view > > >> > > >> http://speirs.org/blog/2010/1/29/future-shock.html > > >> > > > > > > Just to be clear. I don't object to a nice user interface. I don't > > > object to having the machine just work. I don't object to being able to > > > use the machine as an ordinary user. I don't object to not needing to > > > be an OS expert to be able to use a machine. I don't object to a > > > comfortable ebook-reading experience. > > > > > > What I object to is DRM. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
