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From: Kadaitcha Man on 10 Jan 2010 07:49 Some manic octopus named "High Plains Thumper" gurgled: > Problem is I quoted a consumer advocacy group, which was largely ignored > by the poster. You. You were ignored by the poster. <SNIP 100 more lines of obsessive Linuxfucktard propaganda> There's something really mentally wrong with you, hey. -- Test signature Dinner tonight: Cooked sufficiently human armpit hairs con toasted live rat embryos garnished with infected diseased body parts, dished up in a chilled pannikin heaped with threadbare hodgepodge of celery in cashew broth, a side of calf spleen and a goblet of sewage.
From: Hadron on 10 Jan 2010 08:21 Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: > On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote: > >> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 says... >> >>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux. >> >> <snigger> >> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >> >> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share in >> 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? > > Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no incentive > to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and free software > isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new PCs. I always > advise people to remove the crud that comes with their PC and to install > things like Avast and OpenOffice. Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing documents?
From: Phil Stovell on 10 Jan 2010 08:28 On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:21:31 +0100, Hadron wrote: > Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: > >> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote: >> >>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 says... >>> >>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux. >>> >>> <snigger> >>> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >>> >>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share in >>> 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? >> >> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no >> incentive to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and >> free software isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new >> PCs. I always advise people to remove the crud that comes with their PC >> and to install things like Avast and OpenOffice. > > Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing > documents? OO works with all my existing documents, from Word 2.0 -> 97 and Works 2.0. You can always install Word, Excel etc. under Wine, if you must. I tried with Office 97 and it worked fine.
From: Phil Stovell on 10 Jan 2010 08:29 On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:28:30 +0000, Phil Stovell wrote: > comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux,24hoursupport.helpdesk,uk.comp.homebuilt Arrrggghhh! Dragons! Dragons! Advocacy groups, I thought it was just uk.comp.homebuilt! Bye-bye.
From: bcoombes on 10 Jan 2010 08:25
Hadron wrote: > Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> writes: > >> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:33:28 +0000, Conor wrote: >> >>> In article <No32n.24084$Ym4.11961(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 says... >>> >>>> All the excuses don't compare with rock steady cost saving Linux. >>> <snigger> >>> Linux - free if your time is worthless. >>> >>> If Linux is so good, how come Windows 7 got 5 times the market share in >>> 1/40th the time it took Linux to get to 1%? >> Because retailers don't make money off free software so have no incentive >> to put it on their PCs. Free software isn't advertised and free software >> isn't included in the trial bloatware that infests new PCs. I always >> advise people to remove the crud that comes with their PC and to install >> things like Avast and OpenOffice. > > Do you also advise them that OO wont work with many of their existing > documents? > I used to be a big OO fan but the last version seems to be causing some machine crashes too. |