OOPs, ment for this to go to the list, I keep forgetting the reply is set to
originator.
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Penguin Paranoia
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:22:48 -0500
From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Pablo García Durán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Monday 04 June 2001 07:34 pm, you wrote:
> Comes from "Registered users"...
>
> As an experienced Mac-user, it took me months to become skeptic about
> OS-evangelism. The first Macintosh (1984) was designed to be silent, small
> and discrete. The computer for everyone tried not to look nor behave like a
> traditional computer. It was intended to be another domestic appliance,
> like a food mixer or a vacuum cleaner, to help with everyday tasks ("the
> power to be your best"). Then someone thought they would earn more money
> (it's always about that) selling a myth instead of a very good computer,
> and there you got the apples: 9% of the whole market.
>
> As a Linux observer, I am suspicious I'm in front of another "fashionable"
> operating system. Suddenly, 3 or 4 Linux-only magazines appear at my
> newsagent's, and every Windows magazine will open a Linux section.
>
>
> Who cares how many Linux users? You will find many more Macintoshes
> involved in profitable tasks and they still don't get the industry support
> they deserve. Try not to think how it should be but how it is.
>
>
> --
> Pablo Garc� Dur�
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who cares? The hardware makers whoes bottom line says it's only worth
providing drivers if there is a large enough base of support to make it
profitable. And the people who have become sick and tired of being ripped
off for so so software that crashes at the drop of a hat and yet you have to
pay $200 plus for it and another $100 plus for the next upgrade. Change
comes from not accepting what is, and striving for what should be. It is
time for a choice and the only way to have a choice is to stand up and be
counted, whether by appending "registered linux user" or e-mail to vendors
asking for proper support. You never know till you try.
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Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
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Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
