----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [newbie] The Linux Printer Driver Petition Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:22:05 -0400
> > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:16 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: > > http://www.petitiononline.com/YALB1975/petition.html > > Just to let you all know if you have not seen this. It may or may not > > help. > > Until I read the first line of the petition I was looking forward > to subscribing to the petition. The first sentence of the petition > is an insult. The over all mood of this particular petition is, I > believe, arrogant, belligerant, combative, threatening - and not > persuasive at all. I've always heard you get more with sugar than you > do with bile. > > > -- > Kenneth Rhodes > 100% MicroSoft Free >********************************************************************** I detected a similar attitude Kenneth. Not only in the petition itself, but in a lot of the signatories comments. I think this sort of an attitude will, in all probability, not have much of a positive influence, except to allow some frustrated folks to vent a bit. I do understand the frustration however. I was intent to sign, but after reading the petition and comments, I declined the opportunity. MS has a very strong hold on the hardware industry at this point, and manufacturers can just ignore us and still profit nicely. The tide is turning a bit, but we are the decided minority as of yet. I am hopeful that will not always be the case, and I do respect anyone's efforts to help the cause. Best regards. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *********************************************** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandriva-2005LE~ *********************************************** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *********************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze
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