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.  

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