On Monday 04 June 2001 09:31 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
>
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I still don't understand the original posters use of the word paranoia. What
are we supposed to be paranoid of? His narration makes a point but still
doesn't explain why he thinks we are being paranoid by putting our registered
linux user number in our signature. I always figured it was sorta bragging
rights - those with real low numbers indicating they have been using linux
since it's not so easy days. Maybe I'm dense, maybe I've always used the
term incorrectly, or maybe he doesn't know the definition of the word. ???
However, I just read where:
"IBM, PC MAKERS TEAM ON LINUX
Big Blue, NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi will commit 500
engineers for enterprise Linux software development
with a goal of making products available within the
next two years:
http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?105004:5757726 "
I think it's time is coming, and one will be proud of their low numbers, not
paranoid. Of course mine isn't low, but someday it may seem so....
-s
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linux inside
(registered user: #197855)
