On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 20:11 -0500, chris yarger wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: chris yarger <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:08 PM > Subject: Re: NYT Ubuntu Article > To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> > > > you also have this article > > not necissarily in newspapers but the second one was being written for > one > > http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/13/dell-launches-consumer-advertising-for-ubuntu-linux-pcs/ > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-831273.html > > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Richard, > > Your vigilance is admirable... > > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Richard Lawrence wrote: > > > ...better than an article earlier this week, which > compared the R statistical computing environment to a > "supercharged Excel"). > > What the heck is R? C+14? > > > It also refers to Debian as an "older version of > Linux," and doesn't mention GNU at all. > > ...yet does quote Ian Murdock - a great dude. > > > But exposure is good, right? > > Exactly! > > > And writing an email to the author/editor which > corrects these misconceptions would just make me seem > like a kook, and would not actually help anything? > Right? > > Indeed...but you are a kook from Vermont, which practically > makes you a natural resource! Excellent work. > > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > Fax: (703) 852-7089 > > Consilium > gratuitum .~. > valet /V\ > quanti /( )\ > numerantur ^^-^^ > > > > -- warmest regards,
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