Huh? I didn't understand a single word of that.

Dale

"Poprivet" <poprivet@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> BillW50 wrote:
>> "The man from Finland!" <ThemanfromFinland@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote in message
>> news6465A13-3CC2-4707-8262-0010CAFE9A9D@microsoft.com
>>> Yah, Linux is priceless as it doesn't cost anything. Everything is
>>> done with pure joy and fun of making a better operating system than
>>> Windows. Everyone knows we have succeeded. Windows looks like really
>>> ridiculous and expensive piece of software. Please don't buy any of
>>> that!. Ubuntu means hunanity and it is really a differenet world from
>>> Microsoft. There's NO humanity in Microsoft!
>>>
>>> "Ray" wrote:
>>> Exactly as
>>> alias said!
>>> software.
>>>> They're priceless.
>>>>
>>>> "progressive realization" <-> wrote in message
>>>> news:ec3ObZh$GHA.2328@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>>> http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1...ockkirkas4.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/2...ttyvistxp2.jpg
>>
>> Yeah I have been hearing this since 1991. And in Torvalds book, he
>> claims he uses Windows. So the author of Linux uses Linux. That
>> doesn't say much for Linux, does it?
>>
>> And I won't care if 99% of the world uses Linux, it is worthless to me
>> until third party developers start selling hardware with Linux in
>> mind. As I am not fooled with Linux is free, if I have to write my
>> own TV card and VoIP phone drivers for the stupid Linux. I played
>> that game with OS/2 and I ain't writing any more drivers. As I have
>> far better things to do with my time. <grin>
>>
>> With Windows, you buy the box and if it doesn't work, you take it back
>> to the store and get another one that works. With Linux, it is up to
>> you and you alone to make it work. Blah! I'm too old that that stuff.
>
> Bravo! And it's not your age; that's just the way it is. I got fooled
> into trying the Linux "thing" myself and when it turned out I couldn't use
> all my hardware because of the lack of drivers, I had to abandon it.
> There is nothing precisely WRONG with Linux; it's just that, as with most
> anything, it's meant for a certain segment of the population. It has a
> niche, and does well there. But for the pure "users" out there, which are
> by far the majority, something like XP is much better, as you described.
>
> I've found that most people who make statements such as the cretins above
> have done, are:
> 1. Actually using windows but want to be noticed;
> 2. Are power users who can write software and want to brag;
> 3. Are nothing but parrots;
> 4. And finally are usually Neanderthals and troglodytes on top of it all.
>
> Yer NEVER too old, long's you can THINK like a 17 year old; only
> difference is, they haven't done the stuff yet that you've done where
> you've done it and aren't amazed by it anymore < G >!! OH; maybe that's
> just ME!! I aint's good's I once was but I'm's good once as I ever was!
>
> Regards,
>
> Pop`
>
>